Mark Krikorian Quotes

Nowadays, there's no such thing as a stable job.

… employers use newcomers [illegal immigrants] to drive down wages because they are … in the shadows.

No one I know has a job anymore. They've got gigs.

I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.

This has been a trend for a long time; the days of lifetime employment are long since over.

In prosperous times, the marginal workers get by. But in tough times, they get the shaft.

I always sympathized with the people who did work for hire; I was one of them.

The kind of job where you have to hustle and hustle and where you're not sure whether you will have enough clients next month, where you have less job security, is becoming much more common.

To people I know in the bottom income brackets, living paycheck to paycheck, the Gig Economy has been old news for years. What's new is the way it's hit the demographic that used to assume that a college degree from an elite school was the passport to job security.

Mexican men and women are doing the jobs that not even the Blacks want to do there in the United States..

I didn't have a huge amount of security when I was a scientist from one contract to another. You're always thinking, 'Am I going to have a job this time next year?'

The rise of franchising, contracting, and other similar employment practices has made it harder to enforce worker protections like minimum wages, overtime pay, and the right to unionize.

Sanctions and workfare make it easier for employers to impose insecure practices on desperate people.

I'm the only person I know who's never had a regular job.

The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor.

With high underemployment - currently over one million part-time workers in the UK want to work more hours - sanctioning clients who cannot increase their hours seems to be both unworkable and unfair.

Can you even begin to fathom the arduous, debasing journey people endure to serve you comfortably in the luxury you are so accustomed to?

Part time America won’t work.

Some of these races, notably those of Asia, are trained by a hundred generations to eat less, wear less, seek less shelter, and work longer hours than any Western race can endure. No Western standards can compete with them in their midst.

There are too few, low skill jobs for the number of low skill people.

There is a moral crisis in France and it has a name. That is the crisis of labor or work.

All the guest worker programs result in permanent settlement.

We have opened our doors to unrestricted immigration, partly because capitalists want plenty of cheap labor, which is not a good reason; and partly because the immigrants want to come, which is not a sufficient reason.

You're a slave in your own country, White Man. Each year you get to keep less of the fruits of your labor; each year it gets more difficult to carry the burden the aliens have placed upon you; each year the cheap labor of aliens makes your future less secure; each year you retreat a few steps more into the world of slavery.

Bread is high, employment scarce, and wages are low in Europe, and there will be a tide of men flowing into our country that will give value to those lands