This year, the American labor movement has more than just its history to celebrate on Labor Day. Most Americans support labor unions, and recent years have seen a surge of unionization efforts in ...

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From barbecues to getaways to shopping the sales, many people across the U.S. mark Labor Day — the federal holiday celebrating the American worker — by finding ways to relax. This year is the 131st ...

In September 1882, labor leaders, workers and supporters gathered in New York City for the world’s first Labor Day parade. According to Allyson Brantley, an associate professor of history at the ...

DALLAS (AP) — From barbecues to getaways to shopping the sales, many people across the U.S. mark Labor Day — the federal holiday celebrating the American worker — by finding ways to relax. This year ...

You probably don’t have to work on the first Monday of September, but why? The name “Labor Day” suggests a holiday that’s all about American workers, but most of us just see it as an excuse for a ...

If you want to learn something about the history of American labor, Wayne State University in Detroit is an excellent place to start. Its campus is home to the Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and ...

Publications including “Mademoiselle,” “Glamour” and the long-forgotten “Charm” first emerged in the 1930s to satisfy an emergent force in the workplace Women Who Shaped History Appointed in 1910, ...

WASHINGTON — For Laura and Brian Lane of Milton, Pa., the Labor Day holiday is usually a day to just kick back with family. "It's a great way to wrap up summer and put a bookend on it," Brian Lane ...

These days, Americans are more likely to associate Labor Day with cookouts, the beginning of the school year and a much-needed three-day weekend. But Labor Day was envisioned as a celebration of the ...

Maine Governor Paul LePage’s secret removal of a mural celebrating the state’s labor history is just one in a long line of struggles over publicly-funded depictions of American workers. By signing up, ...