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Labor Day and May Day emerged from the movement for a shorter workday in industrial America

By Jeffrey Sklansky, Professor of History, University of Illinois Chicago

Most of the world observes International Workers’ Day on May 1 or the first Monday in May each year, but not the United States and Canada. Instead, Americans and Canadians have celebrated Labor Day as a national holiday on the first Monday in September since 1894, 12 years after the first observance of Labor Day in New York City.

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