There can be no doubt but that monopoly of machines and materials is a chief source of the power of industrial tyrants over the common worker and that monopoly today is due as much to chance and cheating as to thrift and intelligence.
Du Bois identifies the monopoly of resources as a key factor in the power dynamics between industrial leaders and workers.
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