Time and History: Labor Day Celebrates the Contributions of American Workers

Labor Day seems like a great day to reflect on time and history. With America’s Department of Labor now just over 100 years old, we celebrate the fact that Labor Day is fully American. Labor Day constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity and well-being of our country.



The first governmental recognition of American workers came through municipal ordinances passed during 1885 and 1886, when a movement started designed to secure state laws honoring the work force. While the first state bill introduced into legislature happened in New York, Oregon was the first to pass the law in February of 1887. Within a year, four more states (New York, New Jersey, Colorado and Massachusetts) followed suit. By June of 1894, Congress passed an act making the first Monday of September a legal holiday to celebrate workers.



It that same timeframe, the U.S. Department of Labor implemented a system for clocking the hours worked and for not exploiting that time. On April 29, we wrote about how the time clock industrialized working hours in a preview of the National Watch and Clock Museum's exhibit called "On the Clock: Changing the Industrialized World." The exhibit will run until the end of December 2015. The article is in our April 2015 archives.

Back to Labor Day, this year the day is being promoted with the tag line "Shared Prosperity for a Stronger America." According to Labor Secretary Tom Perez, "We all succeed only when we all succeed."

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