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Bookmark or Share- Labor Movement ‑ America, Reform & Timeline - HISTORYThe labor movement led efforts to stop child labor, give health benefits and provide aid to workers who were injured or retired.
- For Liberty, Justice, and Equality: Unions Making History in America - UMDBy the end of the century, the labor movement consistently promoted international human rights. In contrast, people of color, women, immigrants, and the LGBTQ community faced exclusion, segregation, and discrimination by unions.
- History of the US Labor Movement - Anna Maria College OnlineTrade unionism centers on the premise of a just society rooted in the republic’s ideals of the American Revolution, in which honest labor, social equality, and acting with virtue comprised the necessary components of good citizenship. The movement grew.
- 16.5: The Labor Movement - Humanities LibreTextsIn the summer of 1886, the campaign for an eight-hour day, long a rallying cry that united American laborers, culminated in a national strike on May 1, 1886. Somewhere between three hundred thousand and five hundred thousand workers struck across the country.
- Labor Day history: 3 pivotal moments in the modern workers' movement - NPRFrom a deadly factory fire to a presidential showdown with strikers, these major labor events became central to U.S. history, the modern labor movement and the rights afforded to workers.
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