"He has helped make workers and organized labor become a respectable entity."
We have no need of slaves, and dogs make poor workers.
Invest time and effort into making poor workers better.
States have tried to use state schools to increase state power, especially to make better soldiers and workers.
You would make very poor workers, wasting one third of your time in rest.
In theory, a trade union could make such a claim, as well as individual workers.
"Businesses get highly skilled and motivated people who often make better workers."
They make good field hands and mine workers, nothing more.
Ship owners can make workers, who are taken on without guarantees, work for low pay and subject them to whatever working conditions they want.
They make better workers, too, and therefore tend to make more money.