Labor Day Holidays Society

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• - Provides background information and links.
  
• - Includes historical information, poetry, and children's literature recommendations. Graphics intensive.
  
• - Maintains that Labor Day should be a time to honor man's mind, not men's muscles, as the real source of wealth and progress.
  
• - Material was first aired in a September 1996. Includes links to other PBS artlicles on labor and politics.
  
• - Explains how the observance came to be and what it means. From the U.S. Dept. of Labor.
  
• - Explains why people celebrate this holiday and why it is observed on the first Monday in September.
  
• - Contemplates what might happen if the media focused its attention on the lives of the nation's workforce the rest of the year.
  
• - Biblical perspective on the day along with history and a list of the U.S. Secretaries of Labor.
  
• - Article from The Detroit News provides a look at the day's history in songs, photographs and text.
  
• - 1996 column from the director of the Sustainability Institute.
  
• - History of the holiday from a Christian perspective.
  
• - 1939 speech by San Francisco mayor delivered before the American Federation of Labor.
  
• - History , tradition, and facts of this event.
  
• - Factual tribute with a comical twist. Original artwork and poetry.
  
• - Features a short history and related links.
  
• - CNN U.S. News article complaining about the recent lack of respect for Labor Day.
  
• - Feature brief reflection and links to related resources.