Sentences with phrase «of labor the power»

the exercise of labor power, labor, is the worker's own life - activity, the manifestation of his own life.

Capitalism is trying to restore the conditions of its reproduction by destroying you, by destroying the value of your labor power.

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«The notion was there were three sources of power in society: government, business, and labor,» Mills, the Harvard professor emeritus, says.

WA Labor says it will spend $ 45.5 million to bring new services to Royal Perth Hospital if it wins the March state election, while the Liberals say they will use about $ 83 million from the partial sale of Western Power to build three new Tafe facilities.

He points out that people have constructed terrible technology before, notably the 18th century «Satanic Mills» powered by child labor and the grim slaughterhouses that produced tainted meat and made the streets of New York and Chicago run red with blood.

All individual authorities — the Labor Department, the IRS, the states — have their own particular mix of criteria, but each of them seeks to clarify two essential facts: whether the worker is under your control, and who has the most power in the relationship.

Premier Colin Barnett has softened his position on the proposed privatisation of Western Power, saying it could be used by Labor as a scare campaign in the state election next year.

Western Australia's Nationals say they are getting down to the «business end» of choosing whether to form a government with Labor or the Liberals as both parties submit their power sharing proposals.

Miners initially flocked to China because of its inexpensive power, local chipmaking factories and cheap labor — now they may have to look elsewhere.

Significant capital underspend was a feature of Western Power management under the Labor governments led by premiers Gallop and Carpenter.

And if you were a high - spending customer back when the tornado of»98 hit, on Labor Day, well, you know what happened after the power outages — the store sent you a letter and a 10 % - off coupon to help you restock the fridge.

We expect profit margins to peak toward the end of 2015 as labor regains pricing power and borrowing costs move higher.

The withering of the labor movement will further kneecap Democrats, keeping them out of power for a generation.

The overwhelming power of business to raise prices at will means in a full employment situation where labor would otherwise be able to fairly bargain for a real wage increase, instead, things blow up (spiraling inflation, that 70s show).

In order to implement labor reforms, Macron is going to have to take on the French unions and reduce their political power, which is immense and which has been accumulated over decades of French political infighting.

The relative balance of power remains with global corporations, and the weakness of labor's bargaining power supports the profit share of gross domestic product (GDP).

And unemployment means no pricing power for labor, no wages to pay off debts accrued during the bubble, a potential wage of foreclosures and a resulting set off layoffs in the service sector.

Instead, we had the Secretary of the Treasury wringing his hands over the power of their contracts, while others within the Administration were cavalierly dismissing the importance of the existing labor contracts in the auto industry.

The paid leave order is the latest move by Mr. Obama to use his power over federal contracts to institute changes on a small slice of the labor market when he can not persuade Congress to enact those measures for the whole country.

-- The war on organized labor to reverse new deal protections continues to benefit from the 1947 Taft - Hartley act which can stymie efforts to effectively combat the power of big business.

What I think is happening is a) inflation expectations are extremely well - anchored b) the tight labor market is delivering some wage growth but not a ton; worker bargaining power remains constrained c) though it has come down off of its recent peak, the dollar remains pretty strong, and perhaps most importantly d) wage growth isn't bleeding into price growth.

This maximizes the power of wealth over labor.

In a demonstration of worker power, the supervisory board on Thursday also named a high - ranking labor representative, Gunnar Kilian, as head of personnel.

But industrial capital as well as labor has come under attack in an internecine war of finance capital against industrial capital, and even against the power of governments to retain control over national economies.

The power of Google snippets is in gathering data to demystify the black box of the notoriously fuzzy production process — in which raw material turns into output with the application of labor — and makes progress possible to measure, analyze, and recognize.

First, it increases the power of wealth, privilege, monopoly rights and property over living labor — including the power of hereditary wealth over the living.

Almost everything that once made American communities cohesive, from child - minding to neighborly casseroles to driving Widow Jones to the grocery store, was powered by the labor of stay - at - home wives, for which they were not paid but for which they will surely be blessed hereafter.

Conversations about the power of making arrests, the corruption and complicity of local governments, the holistic care for survivors, the mechanisms of business and labor, the dangers of coming against criminal syndicates — these are not simple ideas or odds to overcome — especially in the NGO community.

Their economies should be labor intensive rather than energy intensive; produce more durable goods to reduce waste; use local materials in building; consume locally grown foods; engage in organic farming; utilize organic garbage; depend on perennial polyculture, aqua - culture and permaculture; favor trains as well as human - powered machines such as bicycles; employ solar power and other on - site modes of producing energy; and in various ways operate on self - nourishing, self - healing, self - governing principles.

We Presbyterians, who share so much — a confession of faith, a rich theological heritage, the advantages and the burdens of wealth and social power — could covenant to stay together, to labor with each other, in love, for justice and truth.

In addition to anxiety about the overwhelming influence of the profit motive, editors also worried about whether the power of labor organizations could develop rapidly enough to counter the autonomous industrial associations created by the NRA (January 3, 1934).

The unusual short - case justification for the first two options assumes that shifting the balance of power in favor of labor can force a redistribution of income from capitalist bad guys to worker good guys and thereby achieve a living wage for the firm's employees.

Much of the debate about the Church and power conflicts now going on in many American cities seems very familiar because it is a replay of discussions in which I was involved in the 1930's when the chief issue was the relation of the churches to the labor movement in its early struggles to achieve...

Perhaps even more significant than this replacement of human labor is the extension, classification, and perfection of the human powers of thought made possible by automatic machines.

It means also that the government s power will rest on a strict execution of justice, on the rights of the family and of labor, and on the proclamation of the gospel.60 Essay four, «On the Possibility of the Word of the Church to the World,» is unfinished but it poses the issue of the church's responsibility for answering particular problems in the world.

There is the unjust distribution of goods and services whereby a relative minority of wealthy groups and ruling classes use their power and influence to perpetuate macroeconomic and political structures which exploit the labor and lives of the vast majority of the planet's populations.

We loosen our grip and make our concessions only when we are forced to do so by some competing group that has acquired sufficient power to bring us to the negotiating table, as the history of the labor - management conflict and the modern women's movement illustrate.

Every clash over racial status, labor and wages, or the legitimacy of some particular form of power gives evidence of the ambiguity of this principle.

The argument of this chapter is that the extraordinary labors to which Christ calls his church today may well be the celebration of the sacraments of Baptism and the Supper, joined to the bold proclamation of his sovereignty over all the powers that threaten the welfare of humankind.

But the computers, data banks, terminals, programs, and software of multinationals provide them with the power to move money, labor, parts, and natural resources in ways to emphasize profits without consideration of the welfare of any nation, especially the new Third World nations and their peoples.

In more agrarian cultures, for example, women must be skilled in a variety of occupations and may share manual labor and earning power with their spouses.

The coalition holds the kind of veto power that bigcity mayors, African - American leaders and labor unions hold in the Democratic Party.

(2) There is division of labor, defined relative to work: the one gives birth, the other tills, (3) There is the coming of the arts and crafts: no more just picking fruit and gathering nuts, but agriculture — the artful cultivation of the soil, the harvesting of grain, its transformation into flour, the making of bread, and, eventually, also astronomy (to know the seasons and to plan for sowing), metallurgy (to make the tools), the institution of property (to secure the fruits of one's labor), and religious sacrifices (to placate the powers above and to encourage rain).

Much of the debate about the Church and power conflicts now going on in many American cities seems very familiar because it is a replay of discussions in which I was involved in the 1930's when the chief issue was the relation of the churches to the labor movement in its early struggles to achieve power.

The Israeli Labor Party, which governed Israel from its beginning as a state in 1946 until Prime Minister Menachem Begin took power in June, had avoided cultivating the kind of American evangelical support expressed in the recent newspaper ads because it knew that to engage in religious arguments over national boundaries would be self - defeating.

At the very heart of pastoral ministry lies the good news of a power that is not our own, a labor that ultimately is not our work, a grace that is not of our own doing.

Unlike the labor movement at its height, this policy initiative poses no threat to the structures of power in our society.

The global mobility of capital has also diminished the power and significance of the labor movement.

The Tasmanian poll is on the same day as the South Australia election, where Labor's Jay Weatherill will also try to hang on to power — in part by blaming the Abbott government for Holden's announced shutdown of car manufacturing in 2017.

Labor first proposed the idea of an inspector - general for animal welfare in 2013, but former agriculture minister Barnaby Joyce dumped it when the Coalition came to power.