Attention Quote by Leon Jouhaux

“A labor union is revolutionary in fact. It is not the expressed desire to change the world; it is the change already embodied if…

— Frank Tannenbaum

The main concept is that of an international solidarity expressed in practice through worldwide division of labor: free trade is the principal point in…

— Christian Lous Lange

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

— Bill Ayers

The way we look at nineteenth-century English social realism and appreciate the working classes of the emerging industrial revolution.

— Patricia Piccinini

This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an…

— Leon Jouhaux

The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden,…

— A. Philip Randolph

“the organization of labor is only another word for the forms of life of the common people, this means that the development of the…

— Karl Polanyi

The trade unions are a long-established and essential part of our national life. We take our stand by these pillars of our British society…

— Winston Churchill

Well, what there ought to be is an international labor organization, a confederation of the trade unions of all the countries speaking for the…

— Richard Rorty

In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.

— Friedrich Engels

“The form of association, however, which if mankind continue to improve, must be expected in the end to predominate, is not that which can…

— John Stuart Mill

“The very same bourgeois mentality which extols the manufacturing division of labour, the life-long annexation of the worker to a partial operation, and the…

— Karl Marx