America Created Labor Day, Now Ignores It

Newswise — While America can take credit for creating Labor Day twice, Leon Fink, UIC professor of history, says it's ironic that the significance of the holiday is barely noted in its country of origin. Fink, a leading scholar of U.S. and comparative labor history, the history of work, the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and immigration history, can discuss how Labor Day originated and later became a federal holiday.