capital and labor

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It’s nothing a grand profit-sharing plan wouldn’t fix, if there are any modern Henry Fords out there interested in restoring the balance between capital and labor.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

The divergence between capital and labor helps explain the disconnect between a buoyant economy and pessimistic households.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 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

African slavery is therefore a certain relation of capital and labor, in which capital owns its labor and is bound to maintain and protect it.

From The Alternative: A Separate Nationality, or The Africanization of the South by Holcombe, William Henry