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

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 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

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 relations of capital and labor, of the property-holders to the non-property-holders, were things about which no one had thought or written.

From Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters by Fitzhugh, George