Work and the Workplace Timeline 1870–1913 ∼ Rise of Mass Production Widespread use of child labor (1870) / Railroads first to accomplish managerial revolution with professional managers (1880s) / Eight-hour work day inaugurated in Chicago...

United States 1874 The union label movement began in 1874. The first union label was white, to distinguish cigars made by white union men from those produced by Chinese immigrants. From these ignoble beginnings, the union label became one of several...

Labor history (or labour history) is a broad field of study concerned with the development of the labor movement and the working class. The central concerns of labor historians include the development of labor unions, strikes, lockouts and protest...

I should like to acknowledge at the outset that I harbor no grandiose illusions about the import of what I will say this afternoon.(1) As any veteran of annual meetings readily knows, presidential addresses are a time-honored ritual in the life of learned...

Elizabeth Eisenstein's observation in The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early-Modern Europe that the western world would have to wait a "a full century after Gutenberg before the outlines of a new world picture begin to...

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...