factory workers

Child labor was common in urban, industrial America for most of the country’s history. Now lawmakers are making concerted efforts to repeal statutes that prohibit it.

From the Triangle Factory Fire to Shein, fast fashion can’t escape ethical quandaries.

The man who introduced mesmerism to the US was a slave-owner from Guadeloupe, where planters were experimenting with “magnetizing” their enslaved people.

When factories created a population of tired workers, a new frontier in fatigue studies was born.

It's remembered as one of the best industrial jobs a worker could get in postwar America. Less remembered is how brutal life on the factory floor was – and still is.

The men who made the cars could not afford to buy them.

A history of modernity as a history of factories struggles to see beyond their walls.

These women came ready to fight.

Today's diners would surprise a 1940s patron. These restaurants were once vulgar boy’s clubs before becoming today's family-friendly establishments.

A third-generation mill worker pays homage to the controversial industrialist.

The story of Norma Rae, based on the union organizer Crystal Lee Sutton.

The carcinogenic effects of asbestos have been known for decades. We should have banned it long ago.

Female industrial workers across the country and from diverse racial backgrounds fought to tell their own stories.

Recovering the long-overlooked significance of the “hillbilly highway” in the US, with implications for labor history as well as US history broadly.

During the Great Depression, St. Louis's Funsten Nut Factory was racially divided. But Black workers went on strike — and got their white coworkers to join them.

Three-quarters of a century before artificial intelligence concerns, rapid advances in automation prompted panic about mass unemployment—and radical solutions.

The UAW's patient organizing cemented an alliance that would bear fruit for decades.

Over a century after one of New York City’s deadliest industrial accidents, the names of its victims, most of them women, are being enshrined in steel.

The age of optimism that lasted in the US from the 1940s to the 1970s looked, basically, like a car.

Kate Mullany's former home in Troy, New York honors one of the earliest women's labor unions that sought fair pay and safe working conditions.