Technology Quote by Thomas Sowell

“Britain was overtaken not only in gross output but also in output per worker. It lost its lead in technological innovation.”

— Thomas Sowell

We needed overtime laws, we needed unionization, we needed to figure out how to distribute the Industrial Revolution's gains with equity, and we're going…

— Ro Khanna

“It was possible to borrow British technology, and increasingly governments began to promote development. By the end of the nineteenth century, governments and large…

— David Christian

The trade unions are a long-established and essential part of our national life. We take our stand by these pillars of our British society…

— Winston Churchill

The union movement has achieved a huge amount in the past century or so. It has secured important rights at work, tackled unfair discrimination…

— Hilary Benn

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

“England achieved the breakthrough to growth. England’s growth followed from agricultural advances which increased incomes sufficiently that people started to demand more manufactured goods.”

— Edward A. Hudson

Britain is the ideas factory of the world and has huge potential to benefit from the next technological revolution. Our future lies in being…

— Liz Truss

“The term railway was to Victorian England what atomic or aerodynamic were to be after World War II, and network and virtual are today.…

— Richard Bookstaber

“virtually the entire improvement in output per worker in Britain in the first century of the Industrial Revolution was due to improvement in productivity.…

— Edward A. Hudson

Like patents - which also seek to protect the little guy - unions were started for all the right reasons. But like patents, they…

— Sarah Lacy

Today, Labour has a disruptive economic narrative - that Britain needs fundamental change in its market structure and culture to compete in the modern…

— David Miliband