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8/24/18

What Is Labor Day All About?


Labor Day pamphlet, 1942, produced by the Office for Emergency Management.

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News & Commentary

  • Brigid O’Farrell: Why You Should Be Thinking about Eleanor Roosevelt this Week (9-1-16)
  • Brendan I. Koerner: Why Do We Get Labor Day Off? (9-6-10)
  • Jefferson Cowie: That ’70s Feeling (9-5-10)
  • Juan Cole: Labor Day in a Kleptocracy (9-7-09)
  • Timothy P. Lynch: Unions Still Needed Today (9-6-09)
  • Donna Haverty-Stacke: Can Obama Change America’s Understanding of Class and Dissent? (1-16-09)
  • Michael Honey: Labor Day 2008 ... Support Employee Free Choice (9-1-08)
  • Labor union teaching labor history to teachers (6-4-07)
  • Nelson Lichtenstein on Political Repression [VIDEO] (2007)
  • Who Started Labor Day? (8-10-06)
  • Interview with Willie Drye: Katrina and the Great Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 (9-6-05)
  • Curt Andersen: May Day: How Workers Got All Those Rights (4-28-04)
  • The Top Five Myths About Work (7-5-02)