If factory-labor is not a means of education to the operative of to-day, it is because the employer does not do his duty. It is because he treats his work-people like machines, and forgets that they are struggling, hoping, despairing human beings.
ATTRIBUTION:
Harriet H. Robinson (1825–1911), U.S. author and former mill worker. Loom and Spindle, or Life Among the Early Mill Girls, ch. 9 (1898).
