Benefits Quote by David Roediger

“Labor is a man crowning glory." "Not this man's." "I quote Marx" I raised my hands. The pickaxe handle had been rough. "I quote…

— John Fowles

The idea that the country should be led by white men goes back to antebellum slaveholders, who argued that the world was naturally divided…

— Heather Cox Richardson

“Employment is world slavery”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Planters responded to labor demands and laborers’ unity by purchasing more African people and luring Whiteness away from Blackness.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“The idea of labor, of hard work, leading to increased productivity was so novel, so radical, in the overall span of Western history that…

— Gordon S. Wood

For radical white writers wishing to forge interracial movements of poor and working people, whiteness has also long been a problem, with Alexander Saxton…

— David Roediger

Surely the writer is to address a world of laborers, and such therefore must be his own discipline.

— Henry David Thoreau

The situation of the factory worker today is reminiscent in certain respects of that of the nineteenth-century capitalist whose wife dragged him reluctantly toward…

— David Riesman

“All the authors I studied, all the historical figures, with the exception of George Washington Carver, and all those figures I looked upon as…

— Walter Dean Myers

“The tightly intertwined stories of the white working class and black Americans go back to the prehistory of the United States—and the use of…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“workers worldwide typically resist regimentation, unless the local worker culture and upbringing are unusually modern.31 This complaint was voiced in England at the start…

— Kevin Simler

I think it is a wise course for laborers to unite to defend their interests.... I think the employer who declines to deal with…

— William Howard Taft