Appreciate Quote by Patricia Piccinini

“Even Karl Marx, who spent more than three decades living in Victorian England, acknowledged the rise in British workers' living standards between the 1840s…

— Thomas Sowell

“What now strikes as remarkable about the new moneyed class of the nineteenth century is their complete irresponsibility;they see everything in terms of individual…

— George Orwell

At Leeds the idea of an international labour organization appeared in a trade-union text which also drew attention to the danger to the working…

— Leon Jouhaux

Britain's is traditionally a rigid class society.

— Robert Reich

“A “class analysis” does not necessarily begin and end with Marx’s nineteenth-century version, a version I regard as grossly inaccurate. The class struggle, moreover,…

— Murray Bookchin

“I'm working class. But it's the working class that keeps the world running, and it's the working class that gets exploited. What the hell…

— Haruki Murakami

There's such a wealth of literature from the 18th century and 19th century, George Eliot... Jane Austen... that's all about a genteel high society,…

— Steven Knight

The working class of England today have no vision of society beyond the acquisitive - no version of themselves or their habits as anything…

— Andrew O'Hagan

“If the industrial era was about building things, the social era is about connecting things, people and ideas.”

— Nilofer Merchant

Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the basic tyrant of the modern age.

— Edward Abbey

Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories, and even…

— George Packer

“None of this, of course, was ever stated: the genteel social Darwinism of the English middle classes always remained implicit.”

— Julian Barnes