History Quote by Philip S. Foner

“Union protagonists can be permitted a moment of nostalgia for this 'little' labor movement which no longer exists, nor can ever exist again, but…

— Sidney Lens

Speaking of myself, I was made to realize long ago that the old trade union was utterly incompetent to deal successfully with the exploiting…

— Eugene V. Debs

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

— Stanley Baldwin

The unions are the first feeble effort to conquer the industrial jungle for democratic life. They may not succeed, but if they don't their…

— Walter Lippmann

What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent…

— Lech Walesa

In all the history of organized labor, from the earliest times to the present day, no body of union workingmen ever served in a…

— Eugene V. Debs

“Thousands of years ago, the work that people did had been broken down into jobs that were the same every day, in organizations where…

— Neal Stephenson

“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

“All trades, arts, and handiwork have gained by division of labor, namely, when, instead of one man doing everything, each confines himself to a…

— Immanuel Kant

“This business of petty inconvenience and indignity, of being kept waiting about, of having to do everything at other people’s convenience, is inherent in…

— George Orwell

“Indeed, the history of the recruitment of labor is an uninterrupted story of coercion either through the brute force of poverty or more direct…

— Michael Perelman