#worker

The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers. ↗

— Tom Peters

#finally #lives #offices #reaching #revolution

One thing I've learned, in the face of all kinds of indignities, domestic workers take so much pride in their work and love the children they care for. ↗

— Ai-jen Poo

#children #domestic #face #i #kinds

Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation. ↗

— Robert Reich

#comprise #haven #inflation #median #percent

There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions. ↗

— Robert Reich

#business #cycle #get #hit #like

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#bring #change #essential #far #human

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#breakdown #children #compassionate #divided #each

We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#fewer #global #goods #history #human

This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have. ↗

— John D. Rockefeller

#any #ask #band #been #better

But also, the guest workers program, it's quite often misused, meaning people could come in as part of a guest workers program and after two weeks in the fields, they'd run off to do every other kind of job that isn't covered by a guest workers program. ↗

— Dana Rohrabacher

#also #come #could #covered #every

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#business #country #employment #every #farmers