Advancing Quote by John L. Lewis

The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the…

— John L. Lewis

“Most labor historians today agree that craft unions created an aristocracy of skilled workers at the expense of the unskilled and semiskilled and, at…

— Philip S. Foner

Blood and steel

— Otto Von Bismarck

Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.

— Richard Florida

Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.

— William Ellery Channing

“Now, years later and with Carnegie’s blessing, Frick had launched his plan to further consolidate his rule over their industrial kingdom by destroying the…

— James McGrath Morris

It was an era: before drying thesweat of the workers receive the wages they had to refrigerate it after sucking the blood of workers…

— Mak_786

At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom…

— Ray Stannard Baker

People talk about "job creation," as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people with machines.

— Wendell Berry

Growing up in Buffalo, I saw shuttered factories that once housed thousands of steel manufacturing jobs. I remember the hollowing-out of the middle class…

— Tom Perez

Labour, because it chose to remain unintelligent, either became subservient, or insolently believed in damaging the capitalists' goods and machinery or even in killing…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The origin of the labor movement lies in self-defense.

— Mary Ritter Beard