capital and labor

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“Believing, as we do, that a division of our earnings between capital and labor is unequal, we have sought a plan of relief suitable for our business,” Ford told reporters gathered in his office.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

A cull of these half-dead businesses is freeing up capital and labor for more entrepreneurial, productive firms, while also allowing those healthier companies to improve their own profitability.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

“They were able to provide services better with the capital and labor they had on hand,” said another study co-author, Marcella Alsan, a professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 13, 2025

Andrew Jackson, slayer of the national bank, intensified tensions between capital and labor, and between elites and the rest.

From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2023

We wished to combine capital and labor, according to the theory laid down by Charles Fourier.

From History of American Socialisms by Noyes, John Humphrey