[Free Registration/Login Required] A lengthy essay discussing the differing opinions about immigration and the role of immigrants in the United States in the latter half of the 19th century and the early 20th century. Find out about the...

PBS provides this five-part, thorough biography of one of the richest men in America, Andrew Carnegie.

This wonderful website, Freedom, a History of US, based on the series by Joy Hakim, presents the tenth webisode, Yearning to be Breathe Free. Through text, photographs, and audio segments you can get a good picture of the state of...

Read about the growth of labor unions during the 1930s as the Great Depression continued, due to the passage of the Wagner Act. Find out about the strikes and the conflict between labor and management, as well as conflict within the...

A brief biography of Lech Walesa and the independent labor movement in Poland. Describes how labor used strikes to improve their working conditions and qualities of life. Their struggles have been an inspiration to labor movements all...

From a lengthy essay on the history of the railroad in the United States. This section describes the emergence of the Workingmen's Party as a political force in St. Louis, its role in the railroad strikes of 1877, and how it may have...

A contemporary article from the magazine, The Nation, which describes the steel strike in Youngstown, Ohio, in June 1937. Read about the background of the strike, and follow the author's ordeal as she was arrested, despite her press...

In this lesson plan from EDSITEment, students will discuss the significance of the labor movement, the industrialists involved and the attitude of the American people toward working conditions in the United States. Contains links to many...

A biography of Polish labor leader Lech Walesa. Article is descriptive and well-written. Describes his early life, rise as a labor leader, and his election as the first democratically elected president in Polish history.

Grover Cleveland's second term in office was problematic, which affected the election of 1896. Read about the economic depression of 1893, the labor unrest, Coxey's army, and controversial Supreme Court decisions that were handed down...

Read an excerpt from a letter written by Chicago radical and Haymarket defendant, Albert Parsons, to the "Chicago Times" concerning Terence V. Powderly and the Haymarket riot. Also links to other related sites.

This American Experience film about the Rockefellers includes this accounting of the Ludlow Massacre in Colorado and John D. Rockefeller, Jr.'s role in the business decisions that had a role in fomenting it.

A brief look at the success the workers in several industries had in reducing their work day to ten hours.

A brief biography of Henry Clay Frick, partner with Andrew Carnegie in the steel industry in Pennsylvania.

Read about the fate of August Spies, union activist and anarchist, who was involved with the demonstration at Haymarket in Chicago.

The Haymarket Square demonstration turned violent in Chicago in 1886. See a wooden police baton used against the union rioters.

Learn about the Polish Crisis of 1980-1981 that began with a wave of strikes across Poland and the formation of the first independent labor union. The documents are from Russian archives that were writtne in response to the Polish crisis.

Farmworkers.org tells the story of organizing California farm laborers.

An article from the July 31, 1937 edition from The Nation magazine discussing the relationship between Big Steel, Little Steel, and the Committee of Industrial Organization (CIO). Written with a great deal of irony.

Stories of Ukrainian workers and their struggles to fight for good working conditions as the country tries to break away from its communist past. (Date of Article: March 2004)

Homepage of the national magazine for peace and social justice, THE PROGRESSIVE. Read recent news regarding social justice here.

Rallying point of the Paterson Silk Strike of 1913, now home to the American Labor Museum.