Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer.
Labor can and will become its own employer through co-operative association.
You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.
The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor.
Domestic employees are at the whim of their employers.
Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it.
There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.