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Labor Day and May Day emerged from the movement for a shorter workday in industrial America

  • Written by Jeffrey Sklansky, Professor of History, University of Illinois Chicago
Labor Day and May Day emerged from the movement for a shorter workday in industrial AmericaIt took more than a century for Chicago's Haymarket Square to get this memorial to the historic labor strife that occurred there. Jeffrey Sklansky

Most of the world observes International Workers’ Day on May 1 or the first Monday in May each year, but not the United States and Canada. Instead, Americans and Canadians have celebrated Labor Day...

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