Marching back to work after a period of recovery can be nerve-racking. After spending a significant duration...
Labor
“What we are doing to the unemployed is inexcusably cruel.” Unless Congress and the Biden administration act quickly,...
During the early to mid-20th century, American textile workers of all categories were subjected to abysmal working...
Can individuals hire foreigners to work in China? First of all, according to Article 33 of the...
By Cheryl Roy Workers’ compensation insurance is a safety net that every worker should benefit from but...
“We have got to have a military formation of the women.” By Edward McClellandAuthor and Historian In...
Labor continued to work to organize into unions to work for better wages and conditions. Introduction The Great...
As the Western Roman Empire collapsed, landholders gradually transitioned from outright slavery to serfdom. What Is Feudalism?...
The interests of labor or how the lower orders earned their living or conducted their affairs was...
More than a fifth of U.S. children were working in 1900. It took decades of activism and...
The story of the DSEU helps fill in gaps on working women in the Great Depression By...
At the heart of the struggle was the continuing story that new unions were claiming freedoms and...
In today’s world, every successful company has its own human resources department, it is viewed as essential,...
Introduction A guild is an association of artisans or merchants who oversee the practice of their craft/trade...
The history of the American labor movement is a history of external and internal struggle. Abstract This...
Industrialization led to a dramatic increase in child labor. Introduction This explores the dangerous, exhausting work undertaken...
Introduction The Haymarket affair (also known as the Haymarket riot or Haymarket massacre) on Tuesday May 4,...
Trades and trading practices varied over time and place throughout the Middle Ages. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction...
It was justified by reference to historical myths that nobles and servile peasants were separated by courage...
Throughout the Industrial Revolution, gender was a major influence on worker salary. Experience of Women at the...
Working children were subject to very long work hours under harsh and dangerous conditions. Introduction The children...
The working environment was harsh and laborers had to work long hours for extremely low wages. Introduction...
The Industrial Revolution was a time of major change and adaptation. Introduction There are many aspects in...
Different classes of people, the occupations they held, and what nationality they were played a role in...
How does Upton Sinclair’s representation of this community in The Jungle compare to the accounts of sociologists...
What were working conditions like in Chicago during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? What efforts...
Lebanese factory workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1890-1950. Originally published by North Carolina State University, August 2018, republished...
Popular uprisings and resistance to taxation played havoc with the nine departments into which the National Assembly...
The mostly Eastern European victims were forgotten because of an ensuing backlash against immigrant workers. At the...
In 1888, small farmers, sharecroppers, and industrial workers organized to fight inequality. Today, when Americans think about...