The Knights of Labor union founded in 1869 took the movement to a new level drawing a national membership. The ethos of the Knights was to include anyone involved in production, which helped its ...

He said it was already such an entrenched tradition in the U.S. that when the labor movements developed in the late 19th ...

Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts, Vol. 4, No. 2, Reworking Race and Labor (Winter 2011), pp. 269-283 (16 pages) This article explores what is sometimes called Black Nativism: African ...

A Brief History Of Labor Day Labor Day dates back to the 19th century and the height of the ... across the nation organised by the labor movement. Flash forward to 5 September 1894 and the holiday ...