1930s Quote by Noam Chomsky

Labor has been severely undermined, but that's happened before. In the 1920s, the labor movement was virtually crushed, in large part by Wilson's Red…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Noam Chomsky

When the New Deal programs were passed in the mid 1930s, millions of workers were joining unions, striking, and occupying factories to fight for…

— Kshama Sawant

The labor movement can be rebuilt, as has happened before after sharp declines.

— Noam Chomsky

The 1930s had been a time of tremendous economic distress. And the unemployment rate was enormously high by any historic standard.

— William O'Neill

Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated…

— Barry Eichengreen

The labor movement is people. Our unions have brought millions of men and women together, made them members one of another, and given them…

— John F. Kennedy

The labor movement must be destroyed.

— Karl Rove

The spring of 1930 marks the end of a period of grave concern...American business is steadily coming back to a normal level of prosperity.

— Julian Barnes

“In the factory era, the goal was to have the highest PERL. Think about it. If you can easily replace most of your workers,…

— Seth Godin

The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I would say the issue for the labor movement in the United States is not structural... there is no correlation between the success of…

— Andy Stern