Labor Day Past and Present
Does Collective Bargaining Have A Future?
Happy Labor Day! I saw no posts on Facebook today on the origin of labor day. And only one viral meme:
Labor Day became a federal holiday in 1894, when the average American worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week just to make a living, and child labor was rampant.
Teaching American history, I discovered that textbooks tended to give short-shrift to lab…
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