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People (6)
Cesar Chavez
Labor organizer who won rights for America's farmworkers
Eugene V. Debs
Labor Leader, Socialist Presidential Candidate, and Prisoner of Conscience, 1855–1926
George Westinghouse
The air-brake inventor who bet his fortune on alternating current, 1846-1914
Mother Jones
The fearless organizer once called "the most dangerous woman in America"
Samuel Gompers
Founder of the American Federation of Labor and father of the U.S. labor movement
Upton Sinclair
Muckraking Author of The Jungle Who Accidentally Reformed the Food Supply, 1878–1968
Places (5)
Chicago
The city that built itself from nothing, burned down, rebuilt, and became America's most American city
Detroit
The Motor City that built America's middle class and paid the price of its collapse
Hoover Dam
The concrete wall in Black Canyon that made the modern Southwest, 1936
Seattle
Gateway to Alaska, birthplace of Boeing, and capital of the Pacific Northwest
The Golden Gate Bridge
International Orange across an impossible strait, 1937
Events (12)
Haymarket Affair
The 1886 bombing that defined — and distorted — the American labor movement
Homestead Strike
The 1892 labor battle that broke the steel union and defined Gilded Age industrial conflict
Labor Day
The first-Monday-in-September holiday honoring American workers
NAFTA
The 1994 trade pact that bound North America together
Panic of 1873
The railroad collapse that triggered the Long Depression and ended Reconstruction
Panic of 1893
The worst depression before the 1930s — and the crisis that made William Jennings Bryan
Rosie the Riveter
The wartime icon of the women who built America's arsenal
The Great Depression
The worst economic catastrophe in American history
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877
The first nationwide strike — and the violent dawn of the American labor war
The Pullman Strike
The 1894 railroad shutdown that sent a labor leader to prison — and radicalized him
The WPA Federal Art Project
The government as art patron, 1935-1943
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
The 1911 factory disaster that transformed American labor law
Documents (3)
The Child Labor Amendment
The failed amendment to let Congress regulate child labor
The Fair Labor Standards Act
The 1938 law that set the minimum wage, the 40-hour week, and ended child labor
The Wagner Act
The 1935 law that gave American workers the right to organize
Concepts (4)
Fast Food
The automobile, the assembly-line kitchen, and the franchise that carried them worldwide
The Blues
The Delta form that became the taproot of American popular music
The Industrial Revolution
The transformation of American labor, production, and daily life, 1820–1900
The Labor Movement
The century-long fight by American workers for fair wages, safe conditions, and human dignity
Organizations (9)
General Motors
The automaker founded in 1908 that overtook Ford, armed democracy in WWII, and ruled the American road
McDonald's
The San Bernardino hamburger stand that became a global system
The American Federation of Labor (AFL-CIO)
The federation that has spoken for organized American labor since 1886
The Industrial Workers of the World
The radical "Wobblies" who dreamed of One Big Union, founded 1905
The Knights of Labor
The first mass American labor union, which surged in the 1880s — then collapsed almost overnight
The SEIU (Service Employees)
The service-sector union that became labor's fastest-growing giant, 1921
The Teamsters
The powerful trucking union dogged by clout and corruption, founded 1903
The United Auto Workers
The union that organized Detroit and helped build the American middle class, founded 1935
The United Mine Workers
The coal miners' union at the storm center of American labor, 1890
Technology (1)
The Ford Model T
The car — and the assembly line — that put America on wheels
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