Wages Quotes

A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in such cases, it will be found that labour and all commodities have not varied in regard to each other, and that the variation has been confined to money.
David Ricardo

Money, Found, Rise

Certainly other things we can do, we gotta promote after-school employment, give kids an opportunity, raising the minimum wage was part of that, we can't expect that young people are going to feel they can make a living out there for such low wages.
Matt Gonzalez

Give, Living, Young

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

Two, Possible, Paid

It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary and advantageous to labor for wages, and to accept the condition of hired laborers.
Leland Stanford

Time, Long, Find

Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen.
Stephen F. Lynch

Real, Lost, Put

A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for that reason it produces no real effect whatever on profits.
David Ricardo

Money, Real, Reason

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.
David Ricardo

Rise, Labour, Consumed

It is not by the absolute quantity of produce obtained by either class, that we can correctly judge of the rate of profit, rent, and wages, but by the quantity of labour required to obtain that produce.
David Ricardo

Judge, Either, Class

The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state.
David Ricardo

Society, State, Whether

New Orleans is a city whose basic industry is the service industry. That's why it makes its money. That's - it brings people to the city. People come to the city and experience the wonders of this extraordinary city and everything else. The question is that, how do we create jobs which are the jobs that have pay, that - living wages?
Danny Glover

Money, Experience, Everything

When in some communities selling drugs is so lucrative that that's a pretty big enticement that we have to break down. Part of that is by making opportunities and paying decent wages.
Matt Gonzalez

Down, Pretty, Big

Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely claim that Americans don't want to do the jobs.
Dana Rohrabacher

Labor, Longer, Jobs

In addition to joblessness, of course, by the working of supply and demand, when you have a larger number of people unemployed, wages do not rise at the normal level, so that we had last year a drop in real wages.
Tim Bishop

Real, Working, Last

Inflation outstripped real wages for people who work for pay from others.
Tim Bishop

Work, Real, Others

If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through reduction of prices, progress for them is terribly slow, and they become impatient and dissatisfied.
Charles E. Wilson

Forward, Real, Through

Many people do not realize that where unions have bargaining rights employers cannot raise wages or improve benefit plans any more than they can reduce them without of the consent of the union.
Charles E. Wilson

Cannot, Realize, Rights

A study of the history of wages back through the years indicates clearly that when the cost-of-living rises appreciably wages have shortly been adjusted upward also.
Charles E. Wilson

History, Through, Study

No one should be so naive as to think that wages among organized groups will not be increased, under pressure if necessary, to make up for increases in the cost-of-living, nor should anyone ordinarily object to such adjustments.
Charles E. Wilson

Anyone, Nor, Pressure

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.
Karel Capek

Life, Good, Nothing

Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.
Albert Bushnell Hart

Miserable, Class, White

Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be enough to pay for either retirement or healthcare.
William Greider

Enough, Either, Pay

We've always been in favor of improved wages for workers. When you have a strong middle class, they want to buy more stuff at Costco.
James Sinegal

Strong, Stuff, Class

When you hire good people, and you provide good jobs and good wages and a career, good things are going to happen.
James Sinegal

Good, Career, Happen

Paying good wages is not in opposition to good productivity.
James Sinegal

Good, Opposition, Paying

If you hire good people, give them good jobs, and pay them good wages, generally something good is going to happen.
James Sinegal

Good, Happen, Give

If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining.
David Korten

Last, Economy, Declining

My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages.
David Korten

Money, Experience, Living

And what I am trying to say to them that through our ads and through our discussions is if you don't want us in your community, that's your choice, but don't say it's because of wages.
Lee Scott

Through, Trying, Choice

Because the truth is our wages are really competitive and they're good.
Lee Scott

The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not be two standards of work and wages for any trade without constant menace to the higher standard.
Florence Kelley

Work, Women, Two

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