Labor Day was officially established and signed into law by President Grover Cleveland in 1894 to recognize the contributions of American workers. Smithsonian Libraries houses many books dealing with ...

Labor Day is celebrated in the United States and Canada the first Monday of every September. Other than being a long weekend that signals the end of the summer, this celebration has a strange and ...

About thirty years ago, when I immigrated to the United States, I thought that the United States had a free market economy, including free labor markets. Many immigrants (and those born in the United ...

The first Monday of September, Labor Day serves as summer's unofficial last hurrah. The three-day weekend is a last-ditch opportunity to soak up the waning rays of sunshine before fall sets in ...