It may seem counterintuitive to suggest that, on Labor Day, we devote our attention to a subset of the American population who should not be working, or at least not working in jobs that are ...

It may seem counterintuitive to suggest that, on Labor Day, we devote our attention to a subset of the American population who should not be working, or at least not working in jobs that are ...

Fierce was Labor’s unsuccessful fight to put the principle of “prevailing wages” into the Work Relief Bill. Mortal is Labor’s fear that if it takes less than union pay from the Government ...

The marginalization and fragmentation of labor and working-class history in the American classroom. Given what’s currently happening in the workplace—automation, offshoring, the decline of ...

A Labor Day parade on Main Street in Buffalo in 1900. ... On their signs, they called for “Less Work and More Pay,” an eight-hour workday and a prohibition on the use of convict labor.

Chicago is intimately tied to the history of the labor movement and Labor Day. We suggest some Chicago-related books that remain relevant as we think about the past and the future of work.

On Labor Day, celebrate pro-worker wins in Tennessee such as UAW Volkswagen union vote. ... (FLSA) of 1938, which, among other provisions, limited the number of hours a minor could work, ...