"Labor force" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... this class is the great labor force of the South, the class upon whose ample shoulders have fallen the weight of Southern labor and inhumanity for lo! two hundred years—the black man. Time was, yesterday, it appears to me, when this great class were all of one condition, driven from the rising ...
— Black and White - Land, Labor, and Politics in the South • Timothy Thomas Fortune
... 16-19% of labor force claimed; General Union of Algerian Workers (UGTA) is the only labor organization and is subordinate ...
— The 1991 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... of the farmer's life, owing to the variations of the season," I said, "has always been the alternation of slack work and periods of special exigency, such as planting and harvesting, when the sudden need of a multiplied labor force has necessitated the severest strain of effort for a time. This alternation of too little with too much work, I should suppose, would still continue to distinguish agriculture ...
— Equality • Edward Bellamy
... employ a variety of weapons against workmen with whom he cannot agree. An employer may make use of the lockout, that is, he may refuse to allow his labor force to continue at work. Many employers also use the blacklist, i.e. the circulation of information among employers for the purpose of forewarning one another against the employment of certain designated workmen. The employer ...
— Problems in American Democracy • Thames Ross Williamson
... capitalist. The following case, which has come to my knowledge, illustrates what I mean. A number of new machines were installed in a certain shoe factory, and as a result there was a heavy increase in production even though there was no increase in the labor force. Some of the workmen were instructed in the use of these machines by special demonstrators sent out by the makers of the machines. These men, by reason of their special aptitudes and the fact that they were not called upon to operate the machines continuously nine hours every ...
— Theodore Roosevelt - An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt |
