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
It took more than a century for Chicago's Haymarket Square to get this memorial to the historic labor strife that occurred there. Jeffrey SklanskyMost 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...
