Labor Day

The annual worker’s holiday in the rest of the world is May Day. Why not here?

Remembering the radical past of a day now devoted to picnics and back-to-school sales.

America’s ambivalence about labor is nothing new. In the colonial era the ruling class had nothing but contempt for anything that could be justly called "work."

At a recent commemoration of the Battle of Blair Mountain in West Virginia, songs of struggle took center stage.

Then the factory closed and the union crumbled.

Malcolm Ross is unknown today. That’s too bad. This son of privilege has much to teach us about labor and civic leadership.

A six-hour workday could have become the national standard during the Great Depression. Here's the story of why that didn't happen.

But “Lunch atop a Skyscraper,” which was taken during the Great Depression, has come to represent the country's resilience, especially on Labor Day.

On the history (and future) of class struggle in America.

Looking at the Pullman Strike and the political forces it stirred.

The U.S. working class is tremendously diverse — and growing in strength.