#industrial

In the Somme valley, the back of language broke. It could no longer carry its former meanings. World War I changed the life of words and images in art, radically and forever. It brought our culture into the age of mass-produced, industrialized death. This, at first, was indescribable. ↗

— Robert Hughes

#industrialization #language #wwi #age

In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#completely #condition #distribution #industrial #industrial organization

I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States. ↗

— Richard Ernst

#find #forever #i #industrial #job

The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. ↗

— Steven Levy

#cusp #dramatic #economic #industrial #industrial revolution

But the Committee for Industrial Organizations is here. It is now henceforth a definite instrumentality, destined greatly to influence the lives of our people and the internal and external course of the republic. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#course #definite #destined #external #greatly

In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#agreements #bargaining #collective #collective bargaining #committee

Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#america #born #committee #economic #industrial

This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification in the hearts of the millions who are its members and the millions more who support it. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#committee #economic #find #hearts #industrial

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future. ↗

— Karl Marx

#developed #future #image #industrially #less

President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself. ↗

— David Petraeus

#advanced #afghanistan #aspirations #capacity #countries