Welcome to National Industrial Workers of the World Day, a celebration that highlights the struggles and triumphs of workers ...

Labor Day celebrates labor unions and the advances that they made for working people. Here's a list of 25 great recordings to help appreciate labor unions and a few that simply apply to work. 1.

According to the American Time Use Survey , in 2018 men with full-time jobs labored 8.99 hours a day and women 8.56 hours, though most women also perform several hours a day of unpaid household labor.

Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) – Politics and History Foundation and the Industrial Tactic The IWW was founded the 27th of June 1905 with the cooperation of elements from the Socialist Labor ...

Workers put in more than 12 hours a day, six days a week, when the first Labor Day parade was held in 1882 in New York City. Labor Day became a federal holiday in 1894. ... (IWW) and ran for ...

In 1913, Irma Lombardi, a silk weaver in a Paterson, N.J., joined the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). She wanted a living wage as well as recognition for her labor, and she saw in the IWW ...

So, in honor of Labor Day, here are some comics that would make a union steward proud. ... which looks at the adventures of the IWW — real-life superheroes since 1905.

May Day is the original Labor Day, and even if it’s not recognized in any official capacity by the U.S. government, it’s a distinctly American phenomenon, though one now recognized across the ...

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. 7 terrific books about America's labor movement ...

Every Labor Day from 1900 to 1910, ... The IWW lost strength after arrests and deportations following World War I, though the organization’s ideas continue to influence labor activists.

The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), also known as the Wobblies, a union you may have read about in history class, has never gone away. In 2004, they started organizing baristas at Starbucks, ...