Primary Sources: U.S. Labor

Working as an investigative photographer for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC), Lewis Hine (1874-1940) documented working and living conditions of children in the United States between 1908 and 1924. The collection consists of the NCLC's more than 5,100 photographic prints and 355 glass negatives, each useful for the study of labor, reform movements, children, working class families, education, public health, urban and rural housing conditions, industrial and agricultural sites, and other aspects of urban and rural life in America in the early twentieth century.

From Historical Encyclopedia of American Labor

From Historical Encyclopedia of American Labor

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From Historical Encyclopedia of American Labor

From Historical Encyclopedia of American Labor
"As more and more workers banded together in unions, fearful employers sought a variety of methods to deter organization. One of the most infamous of these was the yellow-dog contract, an agreement in which a worker swore not to join a labor union as a condition of employment."

From Historical Encyclopedia of American Labor
"The “yellow-dog contract” came to be so known because the popular saying was that it was so vile that no decent human being would even require an old yellow dog to sign such an agreement. The yellow-dog contract required workers, as a condition of employment, to agree not to join a union."

From Historical Encyclopedia of American Labor

From Historical Encyclopedia of American Labor
"Few novels have had as much impact on society as Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward. Some accounts claim that, among nineteenth-century works of fiction, only Uncle Tom's Cabin and Ben-Hur sold more copies.

From Historical Encyclopedia of American Labor

From Historical Encyclopedia of American Labor