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holiday Activist roots It creates a three-day weekend celebrated on the first Monday of September and marks the unofficial end of summer.
The Road Safety Agency said more than 17 million passengers and crew were expected to be reviewed for air travel Thursday through Wednesday. The AAA said top weekend destinations include Seattle, New York and Orlando, Florida, according to booking data.
Here’s what you need to know about Labor Day:
The origin of Labor Day is the date of the Golden Age
Activists sought to establish a day to honor workers in the late 1800s.
The first Labor Day celebration in the United States took place in New York City on September 5th, 1882. At that time, about 10,000 workers marched in a parade organized by the Central Trade Union and the Knights of the Labour.
Todd Vacon, an assistant professor at Rutgers’ School of Management and Labor, said that the quality of life for workers has shifted from craftsmen’s work to factory work, and the quality of life for factory owners is “just rising sharply.”
Over the next few years, a small number of cities and states adopted laws that allowed Labor Day. President Glover Cleveland signed the Act on Congress in 1894, making it a federal holiday.
Vachon said this was the same year that Pullman Palace Car Company workers took a strike after railcar manufacturers cut wages without reducing rent in a company-owned town that lived near Chicago. More than a dozen workers were killed after Cleveland sent federal troops to crush the strike.
The move to establish Cleveland’s Labor Day as a federal holiday is seen by some historians as a way to “make peace” with the working class, Vacon said.
Labor Day is the unofficial end of summer
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BBQ has been part of Labor Day celebrations from the start, said Robert F. Moss, food writer, culinary historian and author of “BBQ: History of the American Institution.”
He said that it was a tradition that has already been established in the United States when the labor movement began in the late 19th century, and it was natural to celebrate when large groups gathered together. In the 20th century, holiday barbecues moved more towards backyard friends and family gatherings, he said.
“It still has a lot of the same sense of collaboration, gathering around the grill and eating together,” he said.
How the labor movement has evolved over decades
When Labor Day became a federal holiday in 1894, US unions were largely contested, with courts often controlling illegal attacks, leading to violent conflicts, Vacon said. It was not until the 1935 National Labor Relations Act that private sector employees were given the right to join the union.
In the second half of the 20th century, the state began to pass laws allowing unionization in the public sector. But even today, not all states allow collective bargaining for public workers.
In recent years, Vachon said there has been a revival in labor organizations, activities, interests and support.
The relationship between fashion and labor day
The saying that you shouldn’t wear white after Labor Day is “rules.” Broken with fashionable resultsBut where did it come from?
Fashion experts say it’s probably coming back Golden Age – The same period that created Labor Day. The cool, white flocks worn by wealthy New Yorkers surrounded by summer in places like Newport, Rhode Island, are packed into the city on dirt-filled streets.
Christy Crutsinger, professor of merchandising and digital retail at the University of North Texas, heard a saying from a generation of women in her family. But “the fashion world doesn’t function that way anymore,” she added.
“People think about it and say it, but don’t follow it,” she said.
Still, fashion is in many minds around Labor Day thanks to the return to school shopping and switching by many businessmen with more relaxed summer dress codes, said Daniel James Cole, an assistant professor at the Assas Technology Institute in Fashion History and co-author of “The History of Modern Fashion.”
The holidays are “like this hinge,” he said, enjoying summer dresses and “returning to a more serious pursuit.”
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Associated Press journalist Wyatte Grantham-Philips contributed to this report.
