1930s Quote by Noam Chomsky

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

I don't even know if I ever knew - some sweatshop in Baltimore. I knew with my other relatives - some of the women…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Noam Chomsky

In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part…

— Jimmy Smits

When I got out of high school, I got involved with the union, the Local 580 in New York, Ironworking. It was a great…

— Eddie Kingston

I grew up in a household that was a labor household. My dad was a Teamster and a milk truck driver. My mother was…

— Dick Gephardt

My family was mostly unemployed working class.

— Noam Chomsky

Everybody else on the estate we lived in worked in construction, or in shops, and they all lost their jobs. Everybody became unemployed.

— CMAT

My dad was a union grocery worker in ShopRite in Reading. That helped keep the family together while he went to college. He ended…

— John Fetterman

I came from a family where joining a union was the expected thing to do. I've always believed that the relationship between an employer…

— Frances O'Grady

Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions.

— Stanley Baldwin

“It wasn't until the 1920s that a bare majority of children grew up in families where the father's labor purchased the family's provisions, while…

— Stephanie Coontz