The first organization acting as a federation to encompass American unions was ... The Knights of Labor union founded in 1869 took the movement to a new level drawing a national membership.

The first organization acting as a federation to encompass American unions was ... The Knights of Labor union founded in 1869 took the movement to a new level drawing a national membership.

The first recorded instance of a worker strike ... “African Americans and the American Labor Movement.” University of Maryland, University Libraries, Archival Collections.

Discover the collaboration between Black press and the Black labor union movement in this insightful chapter from Dr. Frances 'Toni' Draper's book.

American Federation of Labor Records (Samuel Gompers Papers), Part I. Manuscripts Division, Library of Congress. Washington, DC. Arnesen, Eric. 1993. Following the color line of labor: Black workers ...

One so seldom has the opportunity to report good news about labor unions that when two good things happen in the space of 24 hours that’s a triumph. The first ... the labor movement has been ...

From the 1970s onward, the global political economy was changing: manufacturing was moving first into ... and worker ...

(Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images) Amid this genocidal fervor, some in the U.S. labor movement courageously ... is what’s best suited to American corporate interests rather ...