#labour

It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour. ↗

— Carol Bellamy

#children #engaged #estimated #exploitative #fifty

In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#any #attitude #because #better #doomed

For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#capitalism #chains #class #crush #emancipate

The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#competition #employed #factors #female #following

What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#attractive #capitalists #greater #labour #lower

My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform. ↗

— Tony Blair

#business #centre #got #ground #labour

Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em. ↗

— Thomas Otway

#cloud #labour #like #loads #overcome

Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress. ↗

— John Burns

#labels #labour #less #men #persistent

When Gordon Brown becomes prime minister, the balance sheet that reflects his economic stewardship could look very sickly indeed. He could become Labour's biggest liability, not its most marketable asset. ↗

— Vince Cable

#balance #become #becomes #biggest #brown

You can't win with some people. If you're not in government, you're criticised for being not serious. If you are in government, you're criticised for wanting power. That's the Labour party's line of attack, and it's a bit ridiculous. ↗

— Vince Cable

#being #bit #criticised #government #labour