Labor movement

Women have played key roles in workers' rights movements worldwide for over a century. Images from strikes and protests drive home women's longstanding commitment to equal pay, fair working conditions, and the right to form unions.

As the Labor Day is only a couple of weeks away, I thought of collecting some stimulating Labor Day Posters, both vintage and new, for my readers.

Celebrate the American workforce with these bits of trivia.

Take a look back at one of the controversial chapters in America’s 19th‑century labor movement.

one big union, the hand that will rule the world. IWW Industrial Workers of the World Wobblies. Trade Union Labor Movement History.

The roots of May Day lie in a mass working-class struggle for the eight-hour day--something that's been forgotten even by some on the left.

A list of key moments in labor movement history -- which you can thank for the eight-hour work day, overtime pay and the minimum wage.

Child workers rose dramatically and reformers worked to protect workers and end child labor. Children were hired because they could perform unskilled jobs for lower wages and were more adept at using...

Labor Movement in the Industrial Revolution - The labor movement first began during the time period of the Industrial Revolution, in the 19th century. At the time, working-class people were often exploited by wealthy owners and treated horribly. To bett

International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union protest after the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire

Labor Day is about celebrating workers’ rights and the labor movement. Here’s everything you need to know about labor unions, what they’ve accomplished, and why they’re controversial.

This article, which is the second of a two-part series on child labor, describes legislative efforts to curtail the employment of children in the late 1800s and the first half of the 1900s.

This lesson teaches the nuts and bolts of labor unions and shows students how “rights” depend on what people have fought for and won.

Labor Day became a federal holiday in 1894, under President Grover Cleveland. Cleveland created the holiday during a crisis over federal efforts to end a strike by railroad workers. Today the holiday—celebrated on the first Monday in September—pays tribute to the contributions of American workers and symbolizes the end of summer.

Labor Unions started becoming prevalent during the Industrial Revolution

Teachers in five states have demonstrated what organized protests can accomplish. Common Sense Education's Tanner Higgin curates a list of educational tools to help students understand organizing and the labor movement so they can be empowered to affect their own changes in the future.

At the height of its power during the 1930s and 1940s, the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) was one of the most important and progressive unions in the United States

When I ask college students what they know about the origins of Labor Day, the answer is usually straightforward: not much. But if the labor movement’s story is not on the tip of their tongues, it says less about them than it does about our era.