"A fair day's wages for a fair day's work."
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"Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other."
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"Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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?"
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"Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor."
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"No sooner is the exploitation of the labourer by the manufacturer, so far, at an end, that he receives his wages in cash, than he is set upon by the other portions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc."
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"Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business."
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"You can't tell me you can make any system or country work with low wages and high prices, and high wages with high prices don't mean anything when the prices eat up the wages and don't leave anything over."
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"All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity."
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"The only answer to a regime that wages total cold war is to wage total peace."
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"Your praises will become your wages."
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"What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work."
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"Grow jobs. Get this economy growing. Raise wages. Simplify the tax system, so it's easy to comply with."
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"What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male?"
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"I've seen the same promises -- more jobs, higher wages, the jobs don't materialize ... the promises are remade."
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"Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies."
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