Labor Day: Why we celebrate
If your kids are complaining about going back to school, Labor Day is the perfect time to explain just how much worse things could be for them — and, in fact, were.
Once kids were forced into back-breaking jobs day and night in mines, textiles, glass factories, canneries and other places where children don't belong. Labor activitists eventually ended child labor — and won better working conditions for adult workers, including the eight-hour work day.
Today, though, few schools teach in depth about the labor movement and many kids — and adults as well — have no idea what the holiday is intended to honor.
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