E. F. Schumacher Quotes

Jobs are a centuries-old concept created during the Industrial Revolution. Despite the reality that we're now deep in the Information Age, many people are studying for, or working at, or clinging to the Industrial Age idea of a safe, secure job.

In short, avoiding the scourge of unemployment may have less to do with chasing after growth and more to do with building an economy of care, craft and culture. And in doing so, restoring the value of decent work to its rightful place at the heart of society.

Thus every person has a right to work, and this right must be recognized in a practical way by an effective commitment to resolving the tragic problem of unemployment. The fact that unemployment keeps large sectors of the population and notably the young in a situation of marginalization is intolerable

I'm the first secretary of labor in the 21st century, and the competitiveness of the American work force and the modernization of decades-old regulations have been among our top priorities.

I'd go anywhere to work, so long as it's worth it.

We should abolish 'work.' By that I mean abolishing the distinction between work and leisure, one of the greatest mistakes of the last century, one that enables employers to keep workers in lousy jobs by granting them some leisure time.

Our efforts must be bent in the direction of convincing the great mass of working people of this country of the necessity of our winning and retaining our place in business and commerce. That place can be won only through the workers' own efforts and through their own efficiency.

Obama is a president, who I think is anti-jobs.

Given that all our lives rest on work that defines us, the business of labor, the wealth that work manifests itself to, I find it odd that not much is written about it. We talk about relationships, damage, adultery, revolution, but we don't talk about work.

My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better health care for workers. My mother worked for more than 20 years on an assembly line.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

I know I'll always work. In what form, it really doesn't matter.

What is required as we travel towards full unemployment is not new legislation but a gradual change of mental attitude, a shift in values. As our taste for idling grows, we will refuse to work for old-fashioned bosses who demand a five-day, 40-hour, nine-to-five type week, or worse.

The full potential of labor can be utilized only if there is mobility in labor.

People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it.

We obviously would like to get unemployment as low as we possibly can.

We want work and we want honest jobs. Our minds and our hands will be our keep!

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

I always get a little bit frustrated with Republicans, because we always talk about job creators, and really who we should be talking to is their employees.

If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.

Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.

The great question will forever remain, who shall work?

People want the dignity of work.

Jobs, jobs, jobs.

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