A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in such cases, it will be found that labour and all commodities have not varied in regard to each other, and that the variation has been confined to money.

A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for that reason it produces no real effect whatever on profits.

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.

The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state.

It is not by the absolute quantity of produce obtained by either class, that we can correctly judge of the rate of profit, rent, and wages, but by the quantity of labour required to obtain that produce.

Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.

I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day , sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go .

While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.

The wages of pedantry is pain.

Finally, I told them I'd drop out of the management program if they'd give me an entry-level job in the newsroom for union wages, about fifty dollars a week.

The administration is using the devastation of Hurricane Katrina to cut the wages of people desperately trying to rebuild their lives and their communities.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.