Wages Quotes - Page 4

Global markets have a much bigger effect on prices and wages in the U.S. and elsewhere than they did before.

Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.

Paying good wages is not in opposition to good productivity.

But what makes wage slaves? Wages!

We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equilibrium will establish itself: but we never know what the particular prices or wages are which would exist if the market were to bring about such an equilibrium.

While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.

A day's pay for a day's work is more than adequate when both the work and the pay are appreciated as much as they are expected.

I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages.

If a market exists for low-paid work, then we should think about how we can make this type of work more attractive by providing government assistance. Of course, the wage-earner must be able to live off of his wages. We will not allow poverty wages or dumping wages. But the wage earner can receive a combined wage that includes both his actual wages and a government subsidy.

If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack, You may get a bland smile from these sages; But should it, by chance, be imported from France, Half-a-crown is stopped out of your wages!

Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other.

A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.

End up blowing all of his wages for the week, all for a cuddle and a peck on the cheek.

At the peak of the so-called great success of neoliberal economics, in 2007, right before the crash, non-supervisory workers were at wages considerably lower than in 1979, when the neoliberal assault was taking off. That perfectly naturally causes resentment and fear, and combines with a tendency to blame the most vulnerable.

If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they won't go on strike, they won't call for benefits; they'll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that's optimal for corporations' economic health.

The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.

Germany cannot get out of the euro. What it has to do, therefore, is make the economy more flexible - to eliminate the restrictions on prices, on wages and on employment; in short, the regulations that keep 10 percent of the German workforce unemployed.

You can have a wages policy imposed by mass unemployment.

We can't continue to look on, when there are entire sectors where there are wages that don't provide a secure livelihood.

What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.

The household became the place where the consumption of wages takes place.

Mere inflation-that is, the mere issuance of more money, with the consequence of higher wages and prices-may look like the creation of more demand. But in terms of the actual production and exchange of real things it is not.

The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.

There should be no unemployment. There is large percentage of labor now which cannot make a living because wages are not high enough. That is industry's 2nd job. 1st job is to make good product. 2nd pay a good wage.