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

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

And thereupon, these five shoemakers adjourn to some neighboring saloon and pass a resolution that there is an irrepressible conflict between capital and labor.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Political by Ingersoll, Robert Green