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	Labour movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The labour movement (or labor movement) is a broad term for the development of a collective organization of working people, to campaign in their own interest for better treatment from their employers and political governments.
		An active and free labour movement is considered by many to be an important element in maintaining democracy and for economic development.
		The Australian labour movement is an example of a labour movement that has grown and existed in a particular national context.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Labor_movement (549 words)

	U.S. DOL - The History of Labor Day
		Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers.
		Still later, by a resolution of the American Federation of Labor convention of 1909, the Sunday preceding Labor Day was adopted as Labor Sunday and dedicated to the spiritual and educational aspects of the labor movement.
		Labor Day addresses by leading union officials, industrialists, educators, clerics and government officials are given wide coverage in newspapers, radio, and television.
	www.dol.gov /opa/aboutdol/laborday.htm (764 words)

	THE LABOR MOVEMENT
		Because until recently the labor movement was slow to organize the growing numbers of service workers (who are more often women and people of color), the labor movement lost much of its strenght.
		While the early labor movement was often overtly sexist, racist, and nativist in its efforts to protect the jobs of skilled craftsmen, the movement has grown and changed over the years to include workers of all backgrounds.
		Randolph, working with both labor leaders and prominent fl organizations like the NAACP and the National Urban League, won and end to racially discrinimatory hiring in the defense industries and a stop to segregation in the armed forces by planning a march on Washington, DC, and organizing draft resistance in the 1940s and 50s.
	www.angelfire.com /tx/broadspectrum/index.socialism3.html (2094 words)

	Labor Notes - Three Steps To Reorganizing And Rebuilding The Labor Movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The Knights of Labor died and the AFL was born.
		In a concentrated defined labor market there is greater opportunity for unions to utilize their existing membership base, and the strength of the labor movement in the community and politics to support an organizing campaign.
		The structure of the labor movement- loosely confederated, overlapping amalgamated unions- undercuts creating conditions where leaders’ and unions’ success are defined by organizing to dominate industries, organizing new industries and increasing the percentage of the private sector represented by unions within industries and over all.
	www.labornotes.org /archives/2002/12/e.html (9200 words)

	Labor Quotes \| Labor Quotations \| Labor Sayings \| Wisdom Quotes
		The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.
		The labor movement is organized upon a principle that the strong shall help the weak.
		The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
	www.wisdomquotes.com /cat_labor.html (1230 words)

	Labor Movement
		Labor unions were formed to help workers get organized and bargain for their needs and rights.
		The article explains the complexities of the involvement of the Western Federation of Miners and the Mexican labor unions, with whom the I.W.W. was often at odds.
		This coalition of labor, community, civil rights, immigrant rights, women's, religious and student organizations, and individuals is committed to eliminating sweatshop conditions in the global garment industry.
	www.42explore2.com /labor.htm (2259 words)

	Labor Movement
		The labor movement took its root long back in the colonial regime spanning between 1619 and 1776 plus.
		Around mid 18th century the labor scarcity abated with the growth of population and a curb in the supply of lands.
		The Knights of Labor under the Central Labor Union held a large parade in New York City on the occasion of the national Knights of Labor conference.
	www.theholidayspot.com /laborday/labmovement.htm (729 words)

	Labor Movement
		Labor Council for Latin American Advancement - An organization designed to bring together all the Latin American men and women union members in the United States.
		Labor Project for Working Families - Organization working with unions to develop workplace policies on family issues such as childcare, eldercare, family leave and flexible work schedules.
		Educates and involves the public in actions aimed at ending labor abuses, improving living conditions for workers and their families and promoting the concept of a living wage.
	www.supercrawler.com /Society/Work/Labor_Movement (1109 words)

	Open Directory - Society: Work: Labor Movement: News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		L.A. Labor News - Coverage of the labor movement and politics from Los Angeles.
		Labor Educator - Publishes news, pro-union pamphlets and advocates democratic reform within the union movement.
		Labor Notes - Activist trade union newspaper advocating grassroots democracy within and radicalization of the trade union movement in the United States.
	www.dmoz.org /Society/Work/Labor_Movement/News (694 words)

	Labor Arts: Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		To encourage the preservation and study of labor history materials of the Illinois Region, and to arouse public interest in the profound significance of the past to the present.
		The trade union movement in the west was born in Virginia City in the days of the Comstock Lode during the Civil War.
		The home to the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, the Wayne State University Archives and the Douglas Fraser Center for Workplace Issues, located on the campus of Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.
	www.laborarts.org /links (1139 words)

	May Day - the Real Labor Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Although it was never determined who threw the bomb, the incident was used as an excuse to attack the entire Left and labor movement.
		Nevertheless, rather than suppressing labor and radical movements, the events of 1886 and the execution of the Chicago anarchists actually mobilized many generations of radicals.
		They are terrified of what a similarly militant and organized movement could accomplish today, and they suppress the seeds of such organization whenever and wherever they can.
	flag.blackened.net /daver/anarchism/mayday.html (755 words)

	AlterNet: WireTap: Betting on the Future: Youth and the Labor Movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The Student Labor Action Project (SLAP), as a joint effort between Jobs with Justice and the United States Student Association, is an important attempt to build alliances between young people and the labor movement.
		While these individuals might be less likely to become organizers, receiving support from the labor movement might favorably alter their disposition towards unions in the future.
		I believe the labor movement can win over the next generation because cooperation and dignity are more attractive than greed and cutthroat capitalism.
	www.alternet.org /wiretap/21505 (1209 words)

	Online NewsHour: Origins of Labor Day -- September 2, 1996 \| PBS
		Conceived by America's labor unions as a testament to their cause, the legislation sanctioning the holiday was shepherded through Congress amid labor unrest and signed by President Grover Cleveland as a reluctant election-year compromise.
		Assessing the historical impact of labor on politics.
		In 1995, less than 15 percent of American workers belonged to unions, down from a high in the 1950's of nearly 50 percent, though nearly all have benefited from the victories of the Labor movement.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/business/september96/labor_day_9-2.html (701 words)

	Lighting Labor's Fire
		Lichtenstein argues that in many ways, organized labor missed out on the "rights revolution" of the 1960s and '70s, which won individual workers new protections based on gender and race.
		To bring a real labor movement back, we may need a more individualist, even libertarian approach, one that finally brings the "rights revolution" to American workers, regardless of gender or race.
		The ultimate goal is still to change our labor laws and bring back the old union spirit embodied in words like "solidarity" and the use of "brother" and "sister" as affectionate forms of address.
	www.thenation.com /doc/20021223/ehrenreich (1012 words)

	American Labor Merit Badge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Develop a time line of significant history of the American labor movement from the 1770's to today.
		Prepare an exhibit or a scrapbook illustrating three major achievements of the American labor movement.
		Be prepared to define and discuss some of the key terms used in labor relations.
	www.meritbadge.com /mb/121.htm (370 words)

	Trenches - Labor Movement
		The American Labor Movement didn't spring full-blown from the thigh of Zeus, and it certainly wasn't given freely to workers by management.
		The early labor movement was a true war, a story of clashing armies, battlefield deaths, grand strategies, shifting alliances, and spies.
		The book involves one of its main characters in the early Labor Movement, and there are brutal images of strikebreakers and labor riots.
	matewan.squarespace.com /labor-movement (514 words)

	LaborNet: Online Communications for a Democratic Labor Movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Bureau of Labor Statistics The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics.
		Labor Activist Newsletter of the Democratic Socialist of America - Labor Solidarity Committee/Youth Section.
		The aim of the Labor Solidarity Committee and the Labor Activist is to provide interesting and relevant information to organizers, rank-and-file activists, students, and educators.
	www.labornet.org /links.htm (687 words)

	Strengthening Our Union Movement For The Future (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Since President John Sweeney, Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka and Executive Vice President Linda Chavez-Thompson were elected to lead our movement in 1995, the AFL-CIO and affiliate unions have targeted resources to better support the movement’s top priorities: helping workers form unions and building the most dynamic labor political program in our history.
		Recognizing there is much left to do, the AFL-CIO launched a broad discussion in which union leaders, grassroots activists and allies examined how we should strengthen the union movement for the future while giving working families the power to balance corporate power.
		Posted throughout this site are dozens of proposals submitted by national unions, state federations, central labor councils and allies and more than 9,000 comments and opinions by grassroots members and workers.
	www.aflcio.org /aboutaflcio/ourfuture (279 words)

	TIMELI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		- The first citywide labor council forms in Philadelphia.
		- The Foran Act bans immigration of laborers brought in under contract to break strikes.
		- The American Federation of Labor forms with Samuel Gompers as its first president.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/haymarket/TIMELI.HTM (319 words)

	Labor Arts Sampler Exhibit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		So, too, are the artistic expressions of the labor movement that have moved working people to action.
		Collecting and displaying these cultural objects is the mission of the LABOR ARTS website, and here in the LABOR ARTS SAMPLER are examples of the kinds of items that have inspired this project.
		The Labor Arts site is designed to foster discussion and the sharing of information.
	www.laborarts.org /exhibits/sampler (128 words)

	Labor Relations Research Center - UMass Amherst
		Ongoing non-credit education designed to build a stronger labor movement.
		The Labor Center at the University of Massachusetts is one of the premier Labor Studies programs in the country.
		The Masters of Science in Labor Studies, with concentrations in globalization, labor and communities, and strategic corporate research, equips graduates to work in the labor movement and other organizations advocating for workers' rights.
	www.umass.edu /lrrc (97 words)

	Carol Simpson DesignWorks
		Our mission is to put art to work for labor unions and non-profit organizations.
		We do labor cartoons because humor is a powerful organizing tool.
		We post special labor news alerts so you can take action in solidarity with other working people.
	www.cartoonwork.com (242 words)

	AFSCME LaborLinks: Women's Labor History
		Grade School Teachers Become Labor Leaders: Margaret Haley, Florence Rood, and Mary Barker of the AFT — by Paula O'Connor, Labor's Heritage, vol.
		Frances Perkins was Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945.
		She pushed for the implementation of many of the labor laws and programs we enjoy today such as Social Security and the Fair Labor Standards Act.
	www.afscme.org /otherlnk/whlinks.htm (1500 words)

	Labor Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		In "Saving the Right to Organize: Substituting the Thirteenth Amendment for the Wagner Act" Mark Dudzic assesses labor's recent strategies to overcome restrictions on labor's ability to organize and to bargain effectively.
		Click here for a pdf of the article as well as responses by Larry Cohen and Joshua B. Freeman.
		Read Mark Dudzic's statement on the future of the labor movement.
	www.thelaborparty.org (260 words)

	American Labor History
		See also the discussion of A Concerned Clergy and the Labor Movement.
		Local developments are the focus of the Illinois Labor History Society with its
		Labor History Bibliography, the Illinois Labor History Society offers a Curriculum of United States Labor History for Teachers, a
	www.geocities.com /CollegePark/Quad/6460/AmLabHist (337 words)

	Labor day
		Celebrate the historic holiday that commemorates the huge contributions the workers have made to the strength, prosperity and well-being of our nation.
		Time to take a break, feel the real spirit and travel to the eventful past of American labor movement and pay a tribute to the great labor force..., and of course,
		But make sure to take a virtual trip to see what Labor Day is meant for, or how the day came to be celebrated through ages, or what relevance it bears these days.
	www.theholidayspot.com /laborday (207 words)

	ALSC - American Labor Studies Center
		his instructional unit uses the history of labor relations in major league baseball as a case study to probe this question.
		Scouts Attend A UAW Region 9 Class To Learn About The Labor Movement.
		The Scouts Are Working To Obtain The American Labor Merit Badge.
	www.labor-studies.org (251 words)

	labor movement
		the complex of organizations and individuals supporting and advocating improved conditions for labor.
		the effort of organized labor and its supporters to bring about improved conditions for the worker, as through collective bargaining:
		Their activities proved more harmful than helpful to the labor movement.
	www.infoplease.com /ipd/A0508704.html (61 words)

	AMERICAN LABOR
		Federal and state labor laws showing how these laws affect American Workers.
		Current issues you have learned about from a national union or employee group.
		The IRS has not recognized the USSSP as a 501(c)(3) organization, so donations may not be tax deductible.
	www.usscouts.org /usscouts/mb/mb121.html (562 words)

	Labor Movement \| Work \| Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
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		The Two Per Cent Solution: A Workable Approach to Employee Ownership and Control - Presents a gradualist approach toward majority ownership by employees of the stock of the companies they work for.
		Content is based on the Open Directory and is enhanced using Zodp's own technology.
	www.zodp.com /Society/Work/Labor_Movement (843 words)

	Labor Against War on Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Five Resolutions for the USLAW Labor Assembly for Peace, Scheduled for Chicago, October 24–25
		Statement by U.S. Labor Against the War in Support of the October 25 Marches in Washington and San Francisco
		Labor Briefs—U.S. Labor and the Looming War Against Iraq
	laborstandard.igc.org /Iraq (1375 words)

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