The workers pushed on. "No sooner had this demand been secured in a number of industries than the workers began to raise the slogan for an 8-hour day," Trachtenberg wrote. He noted a case in ...

Labour Day originated in the United States in the nineteenth century, when the eight-hour day movement was founded to fight for an eight-hour working, eight hours of pleasure, and eight hours of ...

Though the U.S. honors workers in September — with Labor Day, which also has Chicago roots — the May 1886 events are commemorated in Chicago by a memorial on Desplaines Street, north of Randolph ...