1930s Quote by Bill Ayers

“A history of the working class in the United States should, first of all, give a sense of what is meant by "the working…

— Paul Le Blanc

I came to the U.K. at the age of 19 and I didn't know anything about the working-class tradition, the Labour Party and the…

— Stuart Hall

The literature is like that - they [unions] are constantly talking about the masses, the danger they pose, and how to control them. They…

— Noam Chomsky

“Unions gave us the forty-hour workweek, the weekend, and the middle class.”

— Al Franken

The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union…

— Ernest Mandel

“Union protagonists can be permitted a moment of nostalgia for this 'little' labor movement which no longer exists, nor can ever exist again, but…

— Sidney Lens

What is interesting is that, although it is framed as a war between the elites and Main Street, the Tea Party is actually really…

— Chrystia Freeland

I have a funny relationship to the British working class movement... I'm in it, but not culturally of it... I was aware that I'd…

— Stuart Hall

While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most certainly spent…

— Jim Ratcliffe

We've got to keep an eye on the battle that we face - a war on workers. And you see it everywhere. It is…

— James P. Hoffa

Organizing the working class in England or the U.S. or any other advanced capitalist country has been a daunting challenge.

— Bill Ayers

“political parties representing rival bourgeois factions create the illusion of choice but unite to repress the working class.”

— Ken Follett