It took more than a century for Chicago’s Haymarket Square to get this memorial to the historic labor strife that occurred there. Jeffrey Sklansky The celebrations aren’t the same. In much of Europe, ...

The American labor market is reaching a critical turning point that could tighten labor availability in rural industries and slow growth across the U.S. economy. A new quarterly report from CoBank’s ...

Child labor is back. What will we do about it? A dark shadow from America's past is re-emerging. The U.S. Labor Department's shocking revelation of a 37% increase in child labor violations isn't just ...

The Declaration proclaimed all men created equal, yet the new nation’s economy depended on enslaved labor in the South and indentured servitude in the North. This contradiction would shape American ...

DALLAS (AP) — From barbecues to getaways to shopping the sales, many people across the U.S. mark Labor Day — the federal holiday celebrating the American worker — by finding ways to relax. The holiday ...

For the last 250 years, our blue-collar men and women have laid the foundations of our country. They’ve paved roads, built bridges and raised the skyscrapers that shape our landscape. Their tireless ...

For all the talk about a housing shortage, there’s proportionately little attention paid to how the U.S. government is aggravating the situation by kicking out the workers who want to trade and build ...

Incarcerated people in the US are routinely forced to work for low pay or no pay, while state governments are saving billions of dollars—and private corporations are making billions of ...