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  • The situation of the factory worker today is reminiscent in certain respects of that of the nineteenth-century capitalist whose wife dragged him reluctantly toward "culture" and away from his "materialistic" preoccupations.

    Wife   Culture   Today  
    David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.156, Transaction Publishers
  • Iowa is home to teachers, farmers, lawyers, factory workers, and many others who work hard every day to provide the best for their families and their future.

  • War is a farmer’s son from Kansas trying to kill a factory worker’s son from Berlin, with neither of them knowing why.

    War   Son   Kansas  
    Randall Wallace (2001). “Pearl Harbor Movie Tie-In”, Hyperion
  • I'm the granddaughter of a factory worker from Scranton, Pennsylvania. He went to work in the same lace mill every day for 50 years. He believed he passed it down to my dad, who passed it down to me, that if he did what he was supposed to do, he'd have a good life and his kids would have an even better life. That is the American dream. That is what we believe in, that's what we've got to keep going generation after generation.

    Dream   Dad   Good Life  
    Source: time.com
  • I have visited the laid off factory workers and the communities crushed by our horrible and unfair trade deals. These are the forgotten men and women of our country and they are forgotten, but they're not gonna be forgotten long. These are people who work hard but no longer have a voice. I am your voice!

    Country   Hard Work   Men  
    Source: www.abc.net.au
  • When you come into a creativity-driven environment, things are very different and there is the danger that a traditional managerial mind-set could even do damage. That is because managing creative teams and people is very different from managing the factory worker/foreman relationship.

    Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.
  • The fatal flaw of most utopian visions is that they're fundamentally static, and that's not a comfortable place for humans to live. Fourier was very good at imagining a utopia that is constantly changing and very busy, but a vision of paradise that would have been most tantalizing to an underfed overworked factory worker in 1840 doesn't have much appeal in fiction because it's not a story.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.

    Bernard Crick (1993). “In Defense of Politics”, p.240, University of Chicago Press
  • I know [canned music] makes chickens lay more eggs and factory workers produce more. But how much more can they get out of you on an elevator?

  • Sure, they are the future of our world. Nike and Reebok need more factory workers every day.

    Nike   Our World   Needs  
  • One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker.

  • When every one is to cultivate himself into man, condemning a man to machine-like labor amounts to the same thing as slavery. If a factory-worker must tire himself to death twelve hours and more, he is cut off from becoming man. Every labor is to have the intent that the man be satisfied.... His labor is nothing taken by itself, has no object in itself, is nothing complete in itself; he labors only into another's hands, and is used (exploited) by this other.

    Taken   Cutting   Men  
    "The Ego and Its Own (1844)". Book by Max Stirner. Cambridge edition, p. 108, 1995.
  • We've seen those results in generations of Muslim immigrants - farmers and factory workers, helping to lay the railroads and build our cities, the Muslim innovators who helped build some of our highest skyscrapers and who helped unlock the secrets of our universe.

    "Obama Celebrates Ramadan: 'Islam Has Contributed To The Character Of Our Country'" by Ian Schwartz, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 26, 2013.
  • By the 20th century, war ceased to be an encounter between two armies. It became an encounter between two societies, because a factory worker producing a gun or a bomb is as deadly as a pilot.

    War   Army   Gun  
    Source: www.psychologytoday.com
  • Estiven Rodriguez couldn't speak a word of English when he moved to New York City at age nine. But last month, thanks to the support of great teachers and an innovative tutoring program, he led a march of his classmates - through a crowd of cheering parents and neighbors - from their high school to the post office, where they mailed off their college applications. And this son of a factory worker just found out he's going to college this fall.

    Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014
  • And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker.

  • If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

  • The leather vests are work vests, supposed to look like factory workers. They're actually the vests we use in the studio when we make jewelry.

    Looks   Use   Vests  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Women movements would form among the factory workers, a great mobilisation that destroyed the old models.

  • My grandfather was a really, really tough no-nonsense factory worker who emigrated from Ireland in about 1900 to Bridgeport, Conn. He had a big effect on me. Those guys who took a great leap out into what they knew not were the ones who were the real stars, the real heroes.

    Stars   Real   Hero  
  • At the time, there were very few foreign names in the press and they were all factory workers. I thought I'd never get a job at a university with a foreign name.

  • You don't want to say somebody did a great job of acting. You want to say, "Where did he find that person? How did he get that factory worker to come out of the factory and be on camera?" You want to believe that person is real.

    Jobs   Real   Believe  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • The factory workers say that it's impossible to do anything right. If you arrive five minutes early you are a saboteur; if you arrive five minutes late you are betraying socialism; if you arrive on time they say, Where did you get the watch?

    Len Deighton (1964). “Funeral In Berlin”
  • There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.

    "The interview: Jay McInerney" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2009.
  • A factory worker at an assembly line, who can learn their job in 5 minutes, can get bored fairly easily, and disengage completely.

    Jobs   Bored   Lines  
    Source: bobmorris.biz
  • My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay.

    Father   House   Actors  
  • Dad, once an aspiring architect, drove his own catering truck to feed factory workers in downtown Los Angeles, and mom, with a Mensa IQ and mathematical gifts, served as a bookkeeper and worked in a grocery store while pursuing her calling in music: playing piano and composing songs. Perhaps in a way, part of my drive was to complete their unfulfilled ambitions and dreams, but in my own way.

    Mom   Dream   Song  
  • I'm in show business. I'm not like a poor factory worker who'd been laid off.

  • I've spent my whole working life standing up for workers. Didn't matter if it was the two trapped miners at Beaconsfield or professional netballers or indeed factory workers or construction workers.

    Source: www.abc.net.au
  • I want to make a film about a factory worker.

    ""You can't hold back the human spirit"". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.
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