Labor Day, it's the last hurrah of the summer season in the States. So, how did this holiday that celebrates American workers and their achievements come to be? In the late nineteenth-century, during the Industrial Revolution, workers were on the job twelve hours a day and seven days a week. Young children, as young as five or six, were employed in mills, factories, and mines, working long hours and getting paid a small fraction of adult salaries. Rallies and strikes were org