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Labor day facts

September 2, 2019 //  by Janet Grant//  2 Comments

Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant

Labor Day means many things to us Americans. But this article provides a brief history of the naming of this day and the reason it was instituted.

In reading about the history of Labor Day, I realized its foundations were built on the back of civil unrest. Who knew that a three-day weekend we see as signaling the end of summer, sales (!), tucking away our white shoes (you can read about how the idea of not wearing white after Labor Day began here), and wolfing down barbecue, actually arose out of violence, disgruntled workers, and the Federal government’s decision to quell the protests?

Now that I’ve done a little research about Labor Day, I’m mindful that this isn’t just a day of quiet in our usually tumultuous, computer-driven work week, but a day whose genesis is in the struggle for workers to overcome hardships borne in an economic depression.

Interior boiler room, sugar factory

I would urge you, regardless how you’re going to spend today, to keep this important fact in mind, a fact that was as true in the year Labor Day was declared as it is now: This is the last holiday until Thanksgiving.

Labor on! Or not.

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  1. Andrew Budek-Schmeisser

    September 3, 2019 at 12:50 am

    All I now ’bout Labour Day
    is that I’ve lost some friends
    who died this day; is that the way
    this journey’s supposed to end?
    Why does this bloody celebration
    have to be some kind of harbinger;
    why does a free day’s glad elation
    need to end in pyre-burn?
    I would gladly strike the date
    from the calendar’s boxed squares,
    if I could but avoid the fate
    of grim reaper’s dark affairs.
    Thanks for the invite to make merry,
    but it’s visitin’ hours at the cemetery.

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  2. Cristy Fossum

    September 3, 2019 at 8:25 am

    Thanks, Janet. Interesting what a Google of Labor Day novels brought forth: https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=aoRuXYWZAumW_QbS97TwCg&q=novels+about+Labor+Day&oq=novels+about+Labor+Day&gs_l=psy-ab.3..33i22i29i30l6.1715.13601..15416…0.0..0.232.1782.19j2j1……0….1..gws-wiz…….0j0i131j35i39j0i22i30.Rz2yi1maKHA&ved=0ahUKEwiF9uvf-bTkAhVpS98KHdI7Da4Q4dUDCAc&uact=5

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