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Connexions Quotations Labour and Unions
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This is what’s called “increasing flexibility of the labor market.” Flexibility is a word like reform — it’s supposed to be a good thing. Actually, flexibility means insecurity. It means you go to bed at night and don’t know if you’ll have a job in the morning. Any economist can explain that that’s a good thing for the economy – that is, for profit-making, not for the way people live.
- Noam Chomsky |
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The emancipation of the working classes must be conquered by the working classes themselves. - Karl Marx |
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First of all: what is work? Work is of two kinds:
first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relatively to other such matter;
second, telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.
- Bertrand Russell |
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If unions aren’t needed anymore, why do corporations spend billions to destroy them?
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“My good friends, things cannot go on well in England, nor ever will until everything shall be in common, when there shall be neither vassal nor lord, and all distinctions levelled; when the lords shall be no more masters than ourselves. How ill they have used us! They have wines, spices and fine bread, when we have only rye and the refuse of fine straw; and if we drink, it must be water. They have handsome seats and manors, when we must brave the wind and rain in our labours in the field; but it is from our labour they have the wherewith to support their pomp”.
- John Ball |
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First of all: what is work? Work is of two kinds:
first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relatively to other such matter;
second, telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.
- Bertrand Russell |
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Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.
- Studs Terkel |
To learn more about Labour Unions and the Labour Movement, explore the Connexions Subject Index Labour Unions page and the Working Class page.