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The Labor Day
The first labor day in United States was observed on August 26, 1878, in Boston, by the central labor union of NY, the nation's first integrated major trade union. -
The Homestead Strike
The Homestead Strike was an industrial lockout and strike which began on June 30,1892, calminating in the battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6,1892. It was one of the most serious disputes in US Labor History. -
The Coal Strike
The Coal Strike of 1902 was a strike by the United Mine workers America in the anthracite coal fiels of eastern PA. The strike threatened to shut down the winter fuel supply to all major city. -
The Jungle
The Jungle is a 1906 navel written by muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair. Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the life of the immigrant in America, but readers were more concerned with the large portion pertainning to the corruption of the American meatpacking industry during the early- 20century. -
The Bitter Cry of Children
The Bitter Cry of Children is a book by socialist writer John Spargo. Published in 1906, it is an expose of the horrific working conditions of child laborers -
The Pure Food and Drug Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act of june 30,1907 is a United States federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, Sale, or transportation of adultferated food products and pioisonous patent medicines. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Triangle Shirtwaist Factoy Fire in New York City on March 25, 1911 was the deadliest industrial diasaster in the history of the city of New York and resulted in the fourth highest lose of life from an industrialaccident U.S. history -
Steel Strike
The strike was by the wnited steelworker of American against nine other steeelmaker. The strike was scheduled to begin on April 9, 1952 but president Harry S. truman nationalized the American teel industry hours before walk out. The strike ended on July 24, 1952