Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This 19th century illustration depicts New Yorkers celebrating Labor Day in 1882. (Getty Images) I often think of the Knights of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Labor Day crowd at the 1940 Indiana State Fair. (Photo from the Indiana Historical Society) Everyone loves a parade, as the old ...

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation. Most of the world observes International Workers’ Day on May 1 or the first ...

America’s Labor Day celebration in September stands as one of the most politically motivated holiday decisions in the nation’s history, rooted in a deliberate effort to distance the United States from ...