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Labor Movement

Analyze the impact of the labor movement in America throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Child Labor

Historian Yohuru Williams gives a rundown of important facts on child labor in the time of the Industrial Revolution.

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Homestead Strike

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Labor Day 2023

Why Do We Celebrate Labor Day? Labor Day, an annual celebration of workers and their achievements, originated during one of American labor history’s most dismal chapters. In the late 1800s, at the height of the Industrial Revolution in the United States, the average American worked 12-hour days and seven-day weeks in order to eke out […]

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How the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike Exapnded the Civil Rights Movement Beyond Race

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The 1968 Sanitation Workers’ Strike That Drew MLK to Memphis

With the slogan, “I am a man,” workers in Memphis sought financial justice in a strike that fatefully became Martin Luther King Jr.’s final cause.

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How Detroit Factories Retooled During WWII to Defeat Hitler

America’s largest industry shifted from making cars to bombers, tanks and more—at unparalleled speed.

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Minimum Wages in America

Minimum Wage in America: A Timeline

Since 1938, the U.S. federal government has established that workers are entitled to a base hourly wage. Which workers receive that minimum—and how much—has remained a political issue.

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1919 Steel Strike

Why the Great Steel Strike of 1919 Was One of Labor’s Biggest Failures

Plagued by bad press and fraught with racial and ethnic tensions, the huge steel strike was doomed to fail.

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2:11 minTV-PG
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Featured

Labor Movement

Analyze the impact of the labor movement in America throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.

Watch nowWatch now video about Labor Movement
1:56 minTV-PG

Child Labor

Historian Yohuru Williams gives a rundown of important facts on child labor in the time of the Industrial Revolution.

Watch now
3:39 minTV-PG

Homestead Strike

The famed Industrialist breaks the back of organized workers.

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