Quotes About Cheap Labor

#1. What happens when the world cares more about unique voices and remarkable insights than it does about cheap labor

Seth Godin

#2. When the United States wants cheap labor, Mexicans respond. When the employment market north of the border is glutted, the barbed wire gets taut, the border patrols fix bayonets, the vigilantes get busy, and the walls go up.

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

#3. A limitless supply of cheap labor might build you a new city every year, but it ultimately just makes you the factory floor for other countries' companies.

Matthew Reilly

#4. Corporations can't have it both ways. They can't tell Americans how much they want us to buy their products, but then run abroad to avoid taxes or hire cheap labor. American corporations should pay their fair share of taxes and create decent-paying jobs here - not in China.

Bernie Sanders

#5. Global poverty is an input on the supply side; the global economic system feeds on cheap labor.

Michel Chossudovsky

#6. She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of dollars a year by underpaying women and using them as a reserve cheap labor supply

Bella Abzug

#7. Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#8. We're giving jobs to people who would otherwise be out of work if we weren't exploiting cheap labor.

Lily Tomlin

#9. Capitalism always draws from the cheap labor pool; the profit is greater when the expense is limited

Michael Schwalbe

#10. the world market for cheap labor exceeds even the market for cheap sex.

Moises Naim

#11. Whatever Latin America sells - raw materials or manufactures - its chief export product is really cheap labor.

Eduardo Galeano

#12. The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.

Michael Moore

#13. We have military bases all over the world, and that's purely to protect our portfolio abroad.Our investments, and our production, our exploitation of cheap labor and raw materials. We're on the scene to do that, and the military is there to see that it happens.

Philip Berrigan

#14. The Republican Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of cheap labor, satisfying a very important constituency.

Tom Tancredo

#15. My parents were immigrants. And the place for all immigrants was the factories. They were the source of cheap labor.

Jack Kirby

#16. Russia became a juicy chunk of the Third World, with immense reserves of cheap labor, a vast treasure of natural resources, and industrial assets to be sold off at giveaway prices.

Michael Parenti

#17. Unless the concepts of work and play and reward for work change absolutely, women must continue to provide cheap labor, and even more, free labor exacted of right by an employer possessed of a contract for life, made out in his favor.

Germaine Greer

#18. Employers love cheap labor, but a country should train its own people.

Richard Lamm

#19. As Americans, we have the right to decide who lives within our borders, and we can't let unscrupulous employers to undercut honest business owners by exploiting cheap labor.

Hank Johnson

#20. The first reactions from Germany and German industry was quite negative. People right from the start were saying that we will steal technology and take it away and move the plant to India and use low cheap labor to compete.

Baba Kalyani

#21. Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

Desmond Tutu

#22. Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal immigration, and wages across the board are depressed by the overwhelming influx of cheap and illegal labor.

Elton Gallegly

#23. Labor is cheap, friends are expensive, but sons are priceless.

Rick Joyner

#24. If cheap immigrant labor is made unavailable, employers can hire Americans at a higher wage, or replace low-wage immigrant workers with technology and automation, which will create a smaller number of skilled jobs for Americans.

Jan C. Ting

#25. The only people benefiting from the status quo in immigration in the USA are the people trafficking human beings across the border, and the people who are hiring illegal labor for cheap purposes.

Marco Rubio

#26. The idea that we need to "pay our dues" is a lie told to us by people who wanted our efforts and labor on the cheap.

James Altucher

#27. Expressing fear that cheap foreign labor will "steal" one's job is the most disarmingly honest admission of professional incompetence.

Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

#28. As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so obvious that wherever there is life there is a place for it; so cheap, that the covetous man may be gratified without expense, and so easy that the sluggard may be so likewise without labor.

Seneca The Younger

#29. If CEOs insist that middle class Americans compete with cheap foreign labor, why not outsource the jobs of CEOs? If business is all about cost, they should be the first to volunteer.

Lou Dobbs

#30. Food should be cheap, and labor should be cheap, and everything should be the same no matter where you go; whether it's a McDonald's in Germany or one in California, it should be the same. And this message is destroying cultures around the world. Needless to say, agriculture goes with it.

Alice Waters

#31. We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.

Cecil Rhodes

#32. Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.

Lamar S. Smith

#33. In the universities, cheap, vulnerable labor means adjuncts and graduate students.

Noam Chomsky