
“Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor.”
Source: The Human Use of Human Beings (1950), p. 162
Source: Europe and the People Without History, 1982, Chapter 7, The Slave Trade, p. 229.
Context: Slaving gave rise to a division of labor in which the business of capture, maintenance, and overland transport of slaves was in African hands, while Europeans took charge of transoceanic transport, the "seasoning" or breaking in of slaves, and their eventual distribution.
“Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor.”
Source: The Human Use of Human Beings (1950), p. 162
“Division of labor is a justification for sloth.”
Source: Path of Life (1909), p. 79
“Answers determined by the social division of labor become truth as such.”
Source: Eclipse of Reason (1947), p. 50: Describing the pragmatist view
2000s, The Real Abraham Lincoln: A Debate (2002), Rebuttal
Source: Principles of industrial organization, 1913, p. 37
Source: Principles of industrial organization, 1913, p. 48
“The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.”
August 22
Debates in the Federal Convention (1787)
“The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.”
Eduardo Galeano (1973), as cited in: Riley E. Dunlap (2002), Sociological Theory and the Environment, 183
“The post-Freudians … have fallen victim to the ravages of the intellectual division of labor.”
Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 58
2010s, 2018, A Free People Must Be Virtuous (2018)