Labor Day often serves as the last opportunity for a summer getaway and marks the unofficial end of the season, but the reason for celebrating has nothing to do…
A federal holiday celebrated on the first Monday of September each year, Labor Day is a celebration of the social and economic achievements of American workers.Labor Day often serves as the last opportunity for a summer getaway and marks the unofficial end of the season, but the reason for celebrating has nothing to do with summer.
Workers were seeing their quality of life decline as they transitioned from artisan to factory jobs, even as the quality of life of factory owners was “just skyrocketing,” Todd Vachon, an assistant professor in the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations previously said. That was the same year that workers for the Pullman Palace Car Company went on strike after the railcar-maker cut wages without reducing rent in the company-owned town where workers lived near Chicago, Vachon said.
In recent years, Vachon said, there’s been a resurgence in labor organizing, activism, interest and support.
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