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" A new business model based on old principles of social justice where people matter - now that's a revolutionary way to reduce inequality. "

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" Programs that reduce energy and water use and increase green agriculture and transport have huge job-creating potential. "

" Growing inequality is exacerbated by the companies who simply treat workers as commodities, and our governments are cowered by their demands to perpetuate this model of greed. "

" You'd never plan a career like I've had. "

" We must make both our distributional and democratic systems work for our communities. "

" There's not much more of an honour - to work for, and with, working people. "

" No country can afford to lose a generation to unemployment. "

" When we see the banks get bailed out with seemingly no consequences while ordinary people pay the price with job and wage cuts through austerity measures, who could blame a person for wondering where the loyalties of their elected leaders really lie? "

" We cannot grow jobs without investment; we cannot grow economies if we don't earn. "

" If political leaders want respect, they will begin by enforcing the global rule of law. "

" A binding treaty and mandatory human rights due diligence would clean up slavery in global supply chains. Workers demand it, and consumers demand it. "

" With global rules for global supply chains, we can end corporate greed. "

" As we contemplate a world which is still choosing to deploy technological innovation in a way that deepens inequality and divisions within and between nations, we need to set global foundations back on track. "

" The rules of the global economy are rigged against those who have to work to earn a living and in favour of multinational corporations and the ultra-rich. "

" Democracy is becoming collateral damage in a world where global risks have been ignored or exacerbated by those with the power to act. "

" We need a multi-stakeholder approach to Internet governance, not vested interests in making citizens pay for formerly free services or restrictions to their capacity to share information. "

" What Qatar chose is a system where a worker is owned by his employer. When your employer forces you to live in squalor, makes you work longest hours in extreme heat, doesn't allow you to change jobs, doesn't pay your wages on time, abuses you physically and psychologically, you have no way out, you can't leave. You are trapped. "

" Large swathes of people losing faith in democracy is a dangerous thing. Conflict, desperation, totalitarianism are the products of that loss of faith. "

" Banks don't come with an internal switch that says, 'Enough! Let's slow down a little.' Or, 'Let's just share this wealth around for the benefit of the community now.' That's the job of government. "

" If you think the dominant orthodoxy - shrink your economy, render workers jobless, impoverish families, and still grow - is an oxymoron... then you would be right. "

" When work is not underpinned by social protection, people risk falling into poverty traps. "

" We need to decarbonise our societies and economies. "

" When corporations refuse to practice due diligence by not establishing grievance mechanisms for remedy of abuses against the hidden 94% of their workforce in their global supply chains, they perpetuate a depraved model of profit-making that has driven inequality to a level now seen as a global risk in itself. "

" Anyone who has lived in an area with high unemployment knows how it erodes social bonds, lowers the resilience of the unemployed and their families, and damages the prospects of the next generation. "

" Many communities are already devastated by poverty. Increasingly, that poverty is born of the greed of a global trading system. "

" The competitive pressure to produce, buy, and sell to our global multi-national companies is so intense that contractors in supply chains are motivated to pay low wages, intensify exploitative conditions, keep workers fearful with insecure work contracts, or simply sack workers who have formed a union to fight back. "

" We know an organised workforce cannot be enslaved, but when governments fail their citizens and allow corporations to escape the rule of law, slavery can flourish. "

" Corporate greed, corporate bullying cannot be tolerated - it's time for a global rule of law to guarantee fair trade, rights, minimum wages on which people can live with dignity, and safe and secure work. "

" Where workers are not free to change employers or leave the country without the permission of their employer, workers are, de facto, in forced labour. "

" As economists bandy about terms like 'recapitalization,' 'credit lines,' and 'liquidity,' families are facing brutal cuts to their social services and welfare payments, losing their homes, wondering how their kids will make their way in the world. "

" Care work contributes enormously to the well-being of our societies and to the sustainability of our economies. "