This is the grave of Henry Demarest Lloyd. Born in 1847 in New York City, Lloyd grew up in a middle class family. It was a religious family and they.
On May 18, 1900, the International Association of Machinists and employers signed what became known as the Murray Hill Agreement. This brief and failed attempt to create rational labor relations.
This is the grave of Herbert Croly. Born in 1869 in New York to a family of prominent journalists--both mom and dad were well known--it was almost predestined that this.
It's hard to put the Progressive Era more succinctly than the 1912 film The Land Beyond the Sunset, about a boy who has a terrible home life and who gets.
This is the grave of Lillian Wald. Born in 1867 to a middle-class and secular Jewish family in Cincinnati, Wald's family moved to Rochester in the late 1870s. She applied.
This is the grave of Louis Brandeis. Born in 1856 in Louisville to secular Jewish immigrant parents from Prague, Brandeis grew up there mostly, although the family did return to.
On October 15, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Clayton Act. This law, providing protection for unions from injunctions destroying their strikes, was lauded by many labor leaders as the.
On May 1, 1899, Florence Kelley began her work for the National Consumers' League. Not only was the Consumers League a critical organization in the fight against child labor, but.
