While thinking about a topic for this year’s Labor Day blog post, I was reviewing what we had done in the past and I realized quite a few were labor-related. So I decided that instead of writing something entirely new, a review of previous blog posts would make a good post.
- A Factory, a Fire, and Worker Safety
- Labor’s Day
- She Works Hard for the Money
- The First Monday of September
- Child Labor
Then I got curious about what other Library blogs had done and I found quite a lot!
- Celebrating Labor (In Custodia Legis)
- Employment and Labor Law: A Beginner’s Guide (In Custodia Legis)
- The Lore of Labor (Library of Congress blog)
- A Fashion Faux Pas of Epic Proportions (Library of Congress blog)
- The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory (In the Muse)
- Informational Text: Child Labor Reform Panels and Multimedia in the Early 20th Century (Teaching with the Library of Congress)
- Analyzing Photographs: Child Labor from a Child’s Perspective (Teaching with the Library of Congress)
- Child Labor Photos — What Do Children See? (Picture This)
And because I couldn’t stop, I decided to keep going and highlight just a few other Library pages.
- Topics in Chronicling America – Labor Day (Newspaper & Current Periodical Reading Room)
- Topics in Chronicling America – Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (Newspaper & Current Periodical Reading Room)
- Topics in Chronicling America – Eight Hour Day (Newspaper & Current Periodical Reading Room)
- Topics in Chronicling America – Homestead Strike (Newspaper & Current Periodical Reading Room)
Classroom Materials for Teachers – Labor - Songs of Unionization, Labor Strikes, and Child Labor (Performing Arts Encyclopedia)
- Labor and Progressive Reform (Manuscript Division)
- Labor History Sources (Manuscript Division)
This Day in History – First Labor Day - Life of the People Realist Prints and Drawings from the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Collection, 1912-1948 (online exhibit)
- Working In Patterson: Occupational Heritage in an Urban Setting (online exhibit)