Dynamite: The Story of Class Violence in America by Louis Adamic

“Ever since the Industrial Revolution about a century ago, American industry has been a cruel, chaotic, inhuman scheme—as if it were run by a gang of morons indeed. It has been an aggregation of rackets, big and small, each preying on the other, exploiting labor, extorting from the public, corrupting the government, using any means—including force, including murder—to advance their purposes. Large immediate profits and to hell with everything else! This was the big idea of American capitalism.”

-Lous Adamic, 1931