Noam Chomsky Quotes About Labour

• Capitalism denies the right to live. You have only the right to remain on the labour market.

  Noam Chomsky

  Deny, Capitalism, Labour

• In some ways, [the student anti-sweatshop movement] is like the anti-apartheid movement, except that in this case its striking at the core of the relations of exploitation. Much of this was initiated by Charlie Kernaghan of the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights.

  Noam Chomsky

  Impact, Rights, Sweatshops

• We're now in a situation in which Capital is highly mobile and Labour is basically immobile.

  Noam Chomsky

  Situation, Mobile, Labour

• People have no human rights, only the rights that they can gain on the labour market. Above all, wealth and power have to be protected.

  Noam Chomsky

  Rights, People, Gains

• In the pre-capitalist world, everyone had a place. It might not have been a very nice place, even maybe a horrible place, but at least they had some place in the spectrum of the society and they had some kind of a right to live in the place. Now that's inconsistent with capitalism, which denies the right to live. You have only the right to remain on the labour market.

  Noam Chomsky

  Nice, World, Might

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