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    The nature and power of organized labor in the United States is the outcome of historical tensions among counter-acting forces involving workplace rights...
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    In the United States, penal labor is a multi-billion-dollar industry. Annually, incarcerated workers provide at least $9 billion in services to the prison...
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    Labor unions represent United States workers in many industries recognized under US labor law since the 1935 enactment of the National Labor Relations...
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    The history of forced labor in the United States encompasses to all forms of unfree labor which have occurred within the present day borders of the United...
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  • History of labor law in the United States refers to the development of United States labor law, or legal relations between workers, their employers and...
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    The history of union busting in the United States dates back to the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century. The Industrial Revolution produced a rapid...
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  • Labor history is a sub-discipline of social history which specializes on the history of the working classes and the labor movement. Labor historians may...
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  • The list of worker deaths in United States labor disputes captures known incidents of fatal labor-related violence in U.S. labor history, which began in...
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  • Child labor in the United States was a common phenomenon across the economy in the 19th century. Outside agriculture, it gradually declined in the early...
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    demand for slave labor, and the Southern states continued as slave societies. The United States, divided into slave and free states, became ever more...
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    Child labor laws in the United States address issues related to the employment and welfare of working children in the United States. The most sweeping...
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  • abolished in the United States, Chinese laborers were imported to the South as cheap labor to replace freed Blacks on the plantations. Many of the early Chinese...
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    high of 164.6 million persons in February 2020, just at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Before the pandemic, the U.S. labor force...
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    United States labor law sets the rights and duties for employees, labor unions, and employers in the US. Labor law's basic aim is to remedy the "inequality...
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    formed in the country. Originally known as the Workingmen's Party of the United States, the party changed its name in 1877 to Socialistic Labor Party and...
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  • The following outline is provided as an overview of and a topical guide to the history of the United States. Prehistory of the United States History of...
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    Labor Day is a federal holiday in the United States celebrated on the first Monday of September to honor and recognize the American labor movement and...
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    The United States Department of Labor (DOL) is one of the executive departments of the U.S. federal government. It is responsible for the administration...
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    The American Federation of Labor (A.F. of L.) was a national federation of labor unions in the United States that continues today as the AFL–CIO. It was...
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    The Environmental history of the United States covers the history of the environment over the centuries to the late 20th century, plus the political and...
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    The first modern Farmer–Labor Party in the United States emerged in Minnesota in 1918. The American entry into World War I caused agricultural prices and...
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    The economic history of the United States is about characteristics of and important developments in the economy of the U.S., from the colonial era to...
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  • is not necessary. The right to sit was a pillar of the early labor movement. Between 1881 and 1917, almost all states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto...
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  • According to labor historians and other scholars, the United States has had the bloodiest and most violent labor history of any industrial nation in the world...
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  • Labor federation competition in the United States is a history of the labor movement, considering U.S. labor organizations and federations that have been...
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  • Archived from the original on 2018-10-01. Retrieved 2012-08-03. Philip S. Foner, History of the Labor Movement in the United States: Volume 1, From...
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  • Labor spying in the United States had involved people recruited or employed for the purpose of gathering intelligence, committing sabotage, sowing dissent...
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  • The Labor Party of the United States was a short-lived political party formed by several state-level labor parties upon the encouragement of Chicago Federation...
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    United States Labor history of the United States§Organized labor, 1929–1955 Timeline of United States history (1930–1949) Category:1930s strikes in the United...
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    States History of unfree labor in the United States History of slavery in the United States by state List of amendments to the United States Constitution...
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