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“Britain's earlier development of strong and widespread labor unions, which were able to restrict the application of new technology, both directly and by appropriating…

— Thomas Sowell

Some of the technologies that were created during the Industrial Revolution were appalling, such as capitalization, investment, social hierarchy, sexism, racism, and ecological destruction.

— Chellis Glendinning

But the broader lesson of the first Industrial Revolution is more like the Indy 500 than John Henry: economic progress comes from constant innovation…

— Erik Brynjolfsson

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 first industrial revolution is flawed. It is not working. It is unsustainable. It is a mistake and we must move on to another…

— Wayne Visser

When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the…

— John Boyd Orr

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought…

— Emily Greene Balch

It's clear that there has to be some play between the vitality of invention in economic life and some regulation of it, and in…

— Robert Hass

We're living through the second Industrial Revolution.

— John T. Chambers

The purpose of every industrial revolution is to make craft and skills obsolete, and thereby make people interchangeable and cheap.

— Greg Palast

We need a revolution instead of a technology evolution.

— Peter Sunde

“The great inequality of the modern world that emerged in the nineteenth century was caused by the uneven dissemination of industrial technologies and manufacturing…

— Daron Acemoğlu