时间:2024-09-20 10:29:24 来源:网络整理编辑:娛樂
This Labor Day, put down your burger and White Claw, and spend some time thinking about the American
This Labor Day, put down your burger and White Claw, and spend some time thinking about the American worker.
Sure, it can be easy to take a cynical view of the holiday, signed into law by President Grover Cleveland in 1894 after he sent thousands of U.S. troops to break a railroad strike in 27 states, leading to more than 50 deaths.
While workers got a day off, the holiday didn't do much to materially improve their lives. It wasn't until 1938, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Fair Labor Standards Act, that workers got a minimum wage and 44-hour work week. (It was lowered to 40 hours two years later.)
In 2021, there is still a lot of work to do. The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 per hour since 2009. Homelessness has risen for a fourth straight year. All while CEO pay continues to skyrocket.
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Here is a look at workers fighting for higher wages and better working conditions throughout U.S. history.
Striking miners in Ward, West Virginia, in 1931. 600 miners and their families faced eviction from their company-owned homes.Credit: Bettmann ArchiveA retail strike against Sears by clerks in Chicago, Illinois, in 1946.Credit: Kirn Vintage Stock / Corbis via Getty ImagesDr. Martin Luther King, Jr. leads the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom" in 1963.Credit: Arnie Sachs/Mediapunch/ShutterstockCesar Chavez (third from right) and Coretta Scott King (fourth from right) lead a lettuce boycott march down a street in New York City circa 1973.Credit: Bob Parent/Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesOccupy Wall Street activists protest in New York City.Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty ImagesMarjory Sidman, Dorothy Allen, Mary Carter, Eleanor Lloyd, and Nila Mack picket in front of the Actors' Equity Association headquarters in New York City in 1919.Credit: Bettmann ArchiveGirls protest child labor in 1909 in New York City.Credit: Buyenlarge/Getty ImagesProtesters return to the Capitol Building rotunda in Madison, Wisconsin, after Gov. Scott Walker gives a speech in 2011.Credit: Allen Fredrickson/Icon SMI/Corbis/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesA demonstrator wears a "Power to the Workers" mask during a United Mine Workers of America rally in Brookwood, Alabama on Aug. 3, 2021.Credit: Elijah Nouvelage / Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTopicsActivismSocial Good
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