PHOTOS: A look back at American labor

[Triana]

This 1911 file photo shows the burned out remains of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York’s Greenwich Village neighborhood. Horrified onlookers watched as workers leaped to their deaths from the raging fire in the garment factory. (Photo by AP)



Unemployed people, numbering about 5,000, wait outside the State Labor Bureau which houses the State Temporary Employment Relief administration in New York City, Nov. 24, 1933. The crowd began to gather at 5 a.m. to register for possibly 90,000 federal relief jobs during the Great Depression. (Photo by AP)



In this May 26, 1937 file photo, Richard Frankensteen, United Auto Workers organizational director, with coat pulled over his head, is pummeled by Ford Motor. Co. agents at the gate of the Ford River Rouge Complex in Dearborn, Mich. Ford security personnel were countering the UAW’s efforts to organize employees at the factory complex during an event dubbed “The Battle of the Overpass”. (Photo by AP)



Protests by packing house workers in Chicago in March 1948. (Photos) by Wayne Miller/Magnum)
(Right) Strike captain during protest by the packing house workers, March 1948.



Cleveland AFL-CIO President Martin Hughes waves his notes overhead after speaking at a rally in support of striking air traffic controllers at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, Tuesday, August 12, 1981. (Photo by Ken Mengay/AP)

Quite a few more:

http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/09/02/photos-a-look-back-at-american-labor/

[gopiscrap]

1. Good pictures and good reminders of our Labor History

fucking Ronald Reagan was the one who started the modern decimation of unions.

[Triana]

2. And the nation has since crumbled, IMO.

Decimation of unions is the crux of our economic downfall and income inequality - we are at a point that is socially and economically unsustainable and IMO that is a large part of why we're here.

[gopiscrap]

4. I fully agree with you!

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. these photos remind me of how formally people dressed everu day . suits and hats

[alphafemale]

5. Someone that pulled a coat over someone's head to pummel them was pond scum in my neighborhood.

It would not be forgotten.

Sign of a damn weasel coward.

[sheshe2]

6. Thank you for showing the real meaning of Labor Day!