KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — While Labor Day celebrations now feature cookouts and weekend trips, the original holiday began following the Industrial Revolution with labor workers fighting to unionize ...

Local officials and presidential candidates mingled with union members, their families and supporters at the annual Hawkeye Area Labor Council Labor Day Picnic at Hawkeye Downs Speedway and Expo ...

Tennessee passed a child-labor law in 1901. Prohibiting mines and factories from employing children under the age of 14, the law was dependent upon the courts for enforcement, since the state had no ...

He arrived at the coal mines, textile mills and industrial factories dressed in a three-piece suit. He wooed those in charge, asking to be let in. He was just a humble Bible salesman, he claimed, who ...

With a camera the size of a bread box, photographer Lewis Hine infiltrated the factories, mills and mines where thousands of American children were forced to work in the early 1900s. Hine was hired by ...

Sep 4, 2022 Sep 4, 2022 Updated Sep 1, 2023 0 In this 2013 photo, a sculpture honoring labor by Matthew Placzek is being installed next to the marina at Lewis & Clark Landing. A bobcat works on ...

The annual Labor Day Lift Off balloon festival had a successful launch from Memorial Park in Colorado Springs on Sunday morning, Sept. 5, 2021. The balloons will launch one more time on Monday morning ...

This Labor Day, put down your burger and White Claw, and spend some time thinking about the American worker. Sure, it can be easy to take a cynical view of the holiday, signed into law by President ...

Tennessee passed a child labor law in 1901. Prohibiting mines and factories from employing children under the age of 14, the law was dependent upon the courts for enforcement since the state had no ...

He arrived at the coal mines, textile mills and industrial factories dressed in a three-piece suit. He wooed those in charge, asking to be let in. He was just a humble Bible salesman, he claimed, who ...