1930s Quote by Barry Eichengreen

The labor movement had been pretty much killed in the 1920s, almost destroyed. It revived in the 1930s and made a huge difference. By…

— Noam Chomsky

In the 1930s, unemployed working people could anticipate that their jobs would come back.

— Noam Chomsky

The 1930s had been a time of tremendous economic distress. And the unemployment rate was enormously high by any historic standard.

— William O'Neill

The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But…

— Helen Fisher

When the New Deal programs were passed in the mid 1930s, millions of workers were joining unions, striking, and occupying factories to fight for…

— Kshama Sawant

Look at labor policy. What's the point of making everybody work too much? It's not very useful. It is destroying the planet, actually. But…

— David Graeber

Labor has been severely undermined, but that's happened before. In the 1920s, the labor movement was virtually crushed, in large part by Wilson's Red…

— Noam Chomsky

“But the deepest problem was the intervention, the lack of faith in the marketplace. Government management of the late 1920s and 1930s hurt the…

— Amity Shlaes

There were no jobs created in America from 1945, when the war ended, through 2003. How could there be? Taxes were too high. Preposterously…

— Andrew Tobias

Through much of its history, the US did not have high inequality as compared with Europe. Less so, in fact. That began to change…

— Noam Chomsky

Because a person has to be either working or looking for work to be counted as part of the labor force, an increase in…

— Ben Bernanke

“Yet just eighty years ago it still seemed an impossible mission when U.S. President Herbert Hoover was tasked with beating back the Great Depression…

— Rutger Bregman