0 a person who has an important job in industry and who can influence company and national planning:
1 a person who has an important job in industry and who can influence decisions made by companies or a government:
Often the de facto captain of industry is an intra-organizational collective of labourers, working together as a managerial elite.
I hardly ever met a great banker or a great captain of industry who at that time anticipated any prolonged period of depression.
One understands that, as a very distinguished captain of industry in that line, he has a natural tendency in that way.
What exists in our modern industrial system is the captain of industry, the man of enterprise and brains.
These have to be progressively dismantled to avoid discriminating against the small man who may one day become a captain of industry.
Quite obviously, he must be a captain of industry.
The captain of industry and the village simpleton have the same power to choose their final arbiter—if that is the right word to use.
Every great captain of industry frankly recognises the services done, not only to labour, but to industry generally by those organi sations.
