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The
standard five day week and forty hour week didn't just happen. Many people
suffered terrible working conditions until workers said
"Enough!" Some made the ultimate sacrifice - their lives - to bring us
the benefits we now enjoy and take for granted.
Although
often overlooked, labor
history is an exciting part of our heritage as demonstrated
in the following links.
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A few
benefits brought to us by labor activists:
Defined
work periods
Overtime
pay
Days
off
Safety
regulations
Child
labor laws
On
the job benefits
Labor
& Industries laws
Workman's
Comp
Workplace
Rights
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Unions
Then and Now Includes online study guide, scans of actual news clippings and
political cartoons. Davison Community Schools
Solidarity
Song Labor's anthem
DOL
Historical Information
Research resources
Tour
the Debs House; Eugene Debs Museum Labor
activist and civic leader
Labour
and Business History The
WWW Virtual Library; lengthy collection
Attitudes
toward Labor and Motivations
for Union Organizing
1931-37 Webquest. Attitudes of workers and public about unions and
living conditions
Coal
Mining & The Molly Maguires Brief
History of the Centralia Mine Fire
US
Labor History 1930-1939 Congress passes Davis-Bacon Act
Canadian
Committee on Labour History
Educational
Resources for Working Class History
The
Haymarket Massacre Archive History,
martyrs
The
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
A
Curriculum of United States Labor History for Teachers
Child
labor in America 1908-1912 Featuring
the Original Photo Captions by Lewis W. Hine. Excellent
site
Federal
labor law Time
Lines
American
Labor History An Online Study Guide
Women's
Labor History
Compiled
by AFSME Laborlinks; a comprehensive directory
The
Battle of Matewan
Coal Miners organizing in 1920's
Polish
Workers in American History
A
History of the Iron Workers Union
by
Local 3
Seattle
General Strike Project
1919 Photos, accounts,
research
Wisconsin
Labour History Online
Includes Haymarket
The
New Deal Network
Huge site includes the
CCC and 4,000 photos.
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The
Illinois Labor History Society
Covers historical events, disasters, and people. Photos.
Posters
on the American Home Front (1941-45) Efficient
workers
Cesar
Chavez Links to other Cesar E. Chavez Web
Pages
Paintings
of Strikes 1916 Youngstown Strike oil
paintings
Women
in the workplace Includes conditions in
1791 and individual women's biographies. History Net
Historical
Collections and Labor Archives Penn State. More
than 400 groups of records
Rosie
Hackett and the Union Women of Jacobs Biscuits 3000 women at Jacob's factory
withdrew their labour in pursuit of a pay claim - 1911
Journeymen
Stonecutters of North America They cut the stone and carved the
statues, shaped the column capitals and chiseled the gargoyles . . .
Dutch National Trade Unions Museum
No English translation
Hewitt's
Labor History Page Links
to many aspects of early labor
International
Association of Labour History Institutions
Only
in Butte A rich labor history from this
once bustling mining town.
A
History of Labor Day Conceived by the
America's labor unions as a testament to their cause
American
Labor History An
online study guide
Labor
Reformers Frances
Perkins, Samuel Gompers, and César Chávez
Reference
Sources in U.S. Labor Studies Annotated
guide to reference sources on labor in the United States
The
Illinois Labor History Society
Includes
curriculum for teachers and union hall of fame
Ohio's
First Nurses' Strike, 1966
by Andrea Gambrel
Brief
History of The Town of Pullman
Explains
the Pullman Strike of 1894
Historical
Society of Western Pennsylvania
Photographic
archives includes women and children working in Heinz factory.
Coppertown
USA
Onlline exhibit includes hospital
photos
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"The
more I find out about Samuel Gompers, the more it seems to me that he is
probably the most under-appreciated, under-realized statesman in the history of
this whole country . . . ." -- U. S.
Secretary of Labor Williard Wirtz, 1967
United
Food & Commercial Workers International Union
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