By the time of the Civil War, most American workers were wage earning employees, rather than independent farmers or business owners. Although only a minority of these workers belonged to unions, organized labor movements had powerful effects on...

Labor history may refer to: Labor Unions in the United States, including history The academic discipline of Labor History Australian labour movement, including history Labor History (journal), a scholarly journal published by Taylor and Francis [1]....

Jim Green, a labor historian at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, is committed to building a more just society, and he believes the story of labor's past can inspire people to act today. Over the course of a career that reaches back to...

Labor Embattled: History, Power, Rights. By David Brody. The Working Class in American History. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2005. Pp. xii, 166. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 0-252-07246-4; cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-252-03004-4.) In Labor Embattled: History, Power, Rights, David Brody, a...

8:30 a.m. Sen. Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Barack Obama, Christopher Dodd, Bill Richardson, John McCain and Joe Biden will speak at the International Association of Fire Fighters Bipartisan 2008 Presidential Forum in the Hyatt Regency Ballroom in Washington, D.C. 10 a.m. The New York Bankers...

Broadway was only four days into a strike in 2003 when Mayor Michael Bloomberg pressured both sides to come together and warned of the looming "severe economic impact" that could result from the dispute.This time, theaters have been dark for more than a week and...