Sentence examples for wealth and labour from inspiring English sources

Both fed Piketty's passionate interest in the "relative importance of wealth and labour in life".

But the book is a sweeping narrative about the relationship between wealth and labour over very long periods of time!

Although this was the area first explored by the Spaniards, it was soon surpassed in importance by Mexico and Peru, both of which were rich in minerals and had large native populations accustomed to paying tribute in wealth and labour.

Farm physical features and household characteristics such as wealth and labour stocks have large and significant effects on both the diversity among and within cereal crops, varying among crops.

There now emerged into Osborne's ken an economist called Jim O'Neill from a bank whose grotesque wealth makes Tory and Labour ministers alike go weak at the knees, Goldman Sachs.

But they have preyed on the earth's natural wealth and their workers' labour and creativity, impoverishing both people and planet.

The shadow chancellor said the party's tax strategy would shift the burden away from wages and towards those who hold wealth, and promised a Labour government that would actively intervene to assist business.

Trust in the "self-regulating market", the light touch, the tolerance of extremes of wealth and poverty, which Labour disastrously sought to make its own, derived from an idea formulated in the 18th century, Adam Smith's invisible hand, which, it was believed, would ensure the wellbeing of all society, if only the self-interest of all economic actors were allowed to operate freely.

Rural living was associated with less work in all comparisons (p < 0.001), wealth was associated with work and labour in all comparisons except 21 to 27 hours versus no work (p < 0.01); not having an income was associated with child labour only (AOR = 2.26; 95% CI: 1.20, 4.23; p < 0.05).

Not only has there been a massive redistribution of wealth and political power from labour to capital, but also class has been restructured around new modes of production and consumption, creating structural redundancy and undermining traditional class cultures of solidarity.

Common Wealth faded as the war ended, and Labour eclipsed it on the way to the landslide of 1945.