Labor, Education and Poverty (1981)
Public education may well be the most significant anti-poverty policy insofar as it provides a public inheritance beyond the family and also increases that know-how which leads into productivity. The impacts of the labor movement, for instance, in pressing for universal free public education in the late nineteenth century, may have had a much greater impact on the distribution of income than anything which the labor movement did in terms of monopoly power and collective bargaining for a few crafts constituting the labor aristocracy.
"Policy Implications of Evolutionary Economics," Evolutionary Economics, Sage, 1981, p. 194.