Krystal Ball Quotes
Serious concerns about worker safety and fair treatment have been reported at Amazon warehouses. Workers have fallen ill from extreme heat, had to urinate in bottles because they don't have enough time to use facilities, and been unfairly terminated.
Ball, Krystal, and Saagar Enjeti. The Populist's Guide to 2020: A New Right and New Left Are Rising. Strong Arm Press, 2020.
At the end of the 19th century, there were no private pensions for industrial workers nor was their A Social Security system of any other provision for retirement as workers age. Nor was their any Medicare or welfare system then established. Gompers’ description was then accurate.
Labor leader Samuel Gompers used this statement to publically praise the passage of the Clayton Anti-Trust Act.
This is one of the earliest written guidances regarding the treatment of employees.
He in that same year then persuaded sympathetic MP, John Hobhouse, to introduce the first bill into the House of Commons regulating child labor in the mills. Considered radical in its day, forbade employment of children under the age of 9 from working in the mills, and then limited the hours that children from 9 to 18 to 12 hours a day. The bill was rejected with the same claims that have been made regarding child labor reform attempts ever since. It would slow growth, harm the economy, exacerbate the poverty of poor families and interfere with the parents right to bring up their children. It was not until after his death in 1861 that meaningful child labor laws were passed for the British mills.
While it was true that wages did not increase beyond inflation, the enormous increase in productivity—about a doubling—was not only due to the workers but was also due to the capital investment that the companies made in computers, robots, job restructuring, advanced training, and other management initiatives. Historically, when there are substantial productivity increases, the benefit is shared between the workers and the company as both were necessary to produce the increase in productivity. But since 1980, the workers have not obtained any significant share of the productivity increase.
Krystal Marie Ball is an American progressive political commentator who co-hosts Rising with the Hill's Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti, produced by The Hill. She was previously a political candidate, as well as a television host at MSNBC, and a regular contributor to the Huffington Post. Ball is also a co-host with Kyle Kulinski on the progressive podcast Krystal Kyle & Friends. She's had guest appearances in various programs and networks, including on CNN, CNBC, Fox News, and Real Time with Bill Maher.
