capital and labor

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In the long battle between capital and labor, there was a winner this week in London.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

“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

The split between capital and labor began measurably in 1970, and the gap has only increased since.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

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

The flow to this industry, therefore, of both capital and labor, inevitably reduces not only wages by the direct competition between workingmen, but also the profit out of which high wages were originally paid.

From Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come by Kelly, Edmond