#labour

One of the striking features of the form of globalisation that has now been established is that it is based on the premise that goods and even capital should be free to roam but labour must remain imprisoned within the nation state. ↗

— Roberto Unger

#been #capital #established #even #features

It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#full #good #good idea #government #idea

This constitution recognises the need for social dialogue involving labour and management; it involves trade unions in the decision-making process; it has a social vision founded on social dialogue. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#decision-making #decision-making process #dialogue #founded #involves

We should begin to remind people they are always after your money and if you are on something around average earnings you really don't have that spare capacity to pay for all these follies that Labour keep spending their money on. ↗

— John Redwood

#always #around #average #begin #capacity

Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them. ↗

— David Ricardo

#arbitrary #bestowed #capital #commodities #dependent

In comparing therefore the value of the same commodity, at different periods of time, the consideration of the comparative skill and intensity of labour, required for that particular commodity, needs scarcely to be attended to, as it operates equally at both periods. ↗

— David Ricardo

#both #commodity #comparative #comparing #consideration

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#apart #called #fame #gods #him

My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did. ↗

— Peter Straub

#did #enjoying #every #first #government

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. ↗

— William Whitehead

#alone #ambition #best #employed #enjoyed

I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#child #i #labour #only #public