Intro; Table of Contents; Director's Foreword, by Whitney W. Donhauser; Introduction: Workers' Movements, Workers' Struggles in New York, by Sarah M. Henry; Workers in the City of Commerce: 1624-1898; ...

Incarcerated people in the US are routinely forced to work for low pay or no pay, while state governments are saving billions of dollars—and private corporations are making billions of ...

A. Philip Randolph set the stage for the Civil Rights movement by forming and leading the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1925, which 10 years later became the first African American labor ...

Where in California is its labor history? -- On a mission : how work destroyed native California -- Striking gold -- "All that is solid melts into air" : Gold Rush San Francisco -- Work, leisure, and ...

Black organizers have played a crucial role in advocating for workers’ rights long before the Civil Rights Movement. This Labor Day, we honor five influential Black labor leaders who fought tirelessly ...

David Montgomery and the vitality of labor history. From his first book to his landmark account of the politics of the pre-WWI labor movement, Montgomery explored how people’s experiences of work ...

This article is part of a Labor Notes roundtable on worker power under Trump, co-published by The American Prospect. I’m a fourth-generation union glazier. I remember being a kid sitting around the ...

1882: The first Labor Day Parade marks a movement On Sept. 5, 1882, New York City hosted the country's first Labor Day Parade; around 10,000 workers marched in what is now an annual event, and the ...

Authoritarian socialists, communists, and even some anarchists believe that the labor movement and the socialist/anarchist movement are the same and share identical goals. In this article, I want to ...

American workers today have a host of rights and resources should their workplaces be hostile or harmful because of a rich labor-movement history that put an end to child labor, 16-hour workdays, and ...