From the 10-hour workday movement to OSHA: Here are seminal moments in the development of the U.S. workplace since 1776.

The American labor market is reaching a critical turning point that could tighten labor availability in rural industries and slow growth across the U.S. economy. A new quarterly report from CoBank’s ...

Jeffrey Sklansky is a member of UIC United Faculty, the labor union representing the bargaining units of Tenure/Tenure-Track and full-time Non-Tenure Track faculty at the University of Illinois ...

To mark the Labor Day holiday, The Virginian-Pilot and Daily Press Editorial Board presents these excerpts from speeches and proclamations regarding labor and the dignity of work. “We honor the ...

Faced with Trump and neoliberalism, American unions are embracing one of their oldest, most dangerous tendencies: Sinophobia. Thousands of Teamsters march on the US Capitol on April 12, 2000, in ...

Colonial America certainly benefited from the fact that early settlers were self-selecting risk-takers willing to cross a dangerous ocean and start life over in the new world. Because they were tough, ...

DALLAS (AP) — From barbecues to getaways to shopping the sales, many people across the U.S. mark Labor Day — the federal holiday celebrating the American worker — by finding ways to relax. The holiday ...

Incarcerated people in the US are routinely forced to work for low pay or no pay, while state governments are saving billions of dollars—and private corporations are making billions of ...

From public good to moral evil: state laws and child labor in the 1800s -- Divided, we fall: the Beveridge-Parsons bill -- Regulating child labor as interstate commerce: the Keating-Owen act and ...

Child labor is back. What will we do about it? A dark shadow from America's past is re-emerging. The U.S. Labor Department's shocking revelation of a 37% increase in child labor violations isn't just ...

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First noting that President Donald Trump promised to deport millions of illegal immigrants, Garcia-Navarro turned to the issue of housing prices, an area of rare bipartisan agreement in the election, ...