Labor History Timelines

Posted on October 20, 2010 by ALSC

The AFL-CIO’s timeline is designed to allow the user to move the cursor across a history continuum that runs from 1600 to 2000. Just right click on the date to display a listing of the key labor events of that era.
The University of Maryland Department of History Home Page will take you to the Samuel Gompers Papers. Here you will find an extensive chronology of labor history events organized as follows: (1850-1880), (1881-1899), (1900-1924)
Labor History Timeline Developed by the California Federation of Teachers
A Kansas Heritage Group Maintained Chronology of American Labor History

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