Anti Wage-Slavery Pro-Freedom Quotations Of The Week 1862-1864

"We own it lock, stock, and barrel...I'm not working for that turkey in the office; he's working for me. And when I go into that office and want some information, I demand it and get it!" - Worker in American Plywood Workers' Cooperatives (cited in Greenberg 1986)
 "We hire the manager. Running the mill is up to him. If we don't like the way he's running it, we can fire his butt."
Worker in American Plywood Workers' Cooperatives (cited in Greenberg 1986)

The dominant work ethic in the United States is founded on the presumption that people will not work unless forced to do so by sheer life-and-death necessity. Does this imply a belief in the value of work or, beneath the surface of this loudly asserted attitude, possibly just the opposite?
Lynn Chancer

Leave the dishes unwashed and the demands on your time unanswered. Be ruthless and refuse to do what people ask of you.
Lynne Sharon Schwartz