Samuel Gompers was the nation’s leading trade unionist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and president of the American Federation of Labor from 1886 until his death in 1924.
Saskatchewan Labour History Workshop The Canadian Committee on Labour History is pleased to announce plans for the annual labour history workshop. The organizing committee is led by Lorne Brown and Don Kossick, and the event is co-sponsored with the Saska
Through the early 19th to mid-20th century, coal mining was the industrial engine of downstate Illinois. Workers organized under the banner of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) to win safe working conditions and better pay.