Why do Americans and Canadians celebrate Labor Day? -Kenneth C. Davis
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In the United States and Canada, the first Monday of September is a federal holiday, Labor Day. Originally celebrated in New York City's Union Square in 1882, Labor Day was organized by unions as a rare day of rest for the overworked during the Industrial Revolution. Kenneth C. Davis illustrates the history of Labor Day from Union Square to today.
Lesson by Kenneth C. Davis, animation by TED-Ed.
"People worked 12 hour days, 6 days a week without fringe benefits like vacation, health care and pensions."
I know people doing that now.
Happy labor day
Pypster Rhine Exactly!!!
Just goes to show where this society is headed...with all of this technology, going backwards instead of progressing forward. Capitalists only concerned about maximizing profits, forget about the employees who made it possible.
K Hicks, must be what the meant by MAGA. :(
@@gerry654 it's called working your way up. You do have a choice to move jobs🤦♀️
@@MrsLiz 👏🏻 if the secrets of the rich were known, we'd all be rich 🤫
I agree, every lesson in history class should be delivered this way, kids can't complain about the teacher being boring.
A lot of the American business owners are STILL doing everything they can to keep unions out. My first job was in a factory where it didn't matter if we were hired for full-time or part-time or which shift. They just suddenly announced that everyone had to work eight and a half hours, seven days a week, with no raises or benefits. They even showed videos showing how much better off we were without a union.
it used to be a good thing. all my union does for me is take $50 out my check each month.
Unions aren't need today with attorneys and OSHA around
@@shawnoandrew he commented this 9 years ago
Labor day itself is ironic. Workers work that day while managers take the day off.
I wonder how many people know that Labor Day is a Holiday based on Protesters? Have a Happy Labor Day. And a big thanks to all the workers that are still keeping America going.
Great vid! Worthwhile to point out that Ottawa and Toronto held parallel labour day parades since 1872. Peter J McGuire actually attended the Toronto parade where he got the idea to hold a similar one in NYC a decade later.
This is important to remember!
good too know!! Ill be working all day tommorow on labor day now I can understand and appreciate the humane laws protecting me as an American worker thank you :)
This is heartbreakingly beautiful
I really like the art style of this video, it is really relaxing and comfortable!
We celebrate Labor Day too in the Philippines.
In Spain too xd
Mayo Uno
So as in india may 1st
Exactly!
In Saint Lucia too on 1st May.
I was a nice touch putting a u in the word labour for Canadian Labour Day.
Unfortunately companies in America are still aloud to force 12 hour workdays or else your terminated. We need more rights.
Excellent as always!
Bless all who serve others in these difficult times... "...all effort and exertion put forth by man from the fullness of his heart is worship, if it is prompted by the highest motives and the will to do service to humanity." ~ Baha'i Faith
This year it’s so important to remember
In Europe we also have the holiday, but it`s on May 1st.
It is May 1st??!!
Thank you for the good explanation and the visuals!
Now it just stands for The opening of football season, and a barbeque .Thank you Ted.
Great Video...Very insightful
In Brazil, Labor's Day is May 1st!
Nathalia Pereira Same as in Pakistan.
Except for the US Canada, the rest of the world celebrates labor day on MAY 1. May day was switched to a September labor day by Grover Cleveland, because of big business /capitalist pressure .
International workers day. May day. Is celebrated in America too.
Same in Russia.
Radicalist laborer!
I wanted to do an English lesson on this and I believe my students will find this video really useful, thank you!
I hope you didn't use this...... not good
@@MrsLiz why is it bad?
Doing this Friday! ❤️
Great history thanks.
May Day on May 1st is the real Labor Day (May 1, 1886).
Haysmarket affair. Never forget
Well yes, I understand that as it was explained in the video. I was trying to discern what countries Dantick's question was talking about.
Malls are still open and I work so it doesn't make a difference to me :(
Not to deny the fact that unions can help greatly they can also have their set backs particularly for the individual.
I used to do that, during harvest season. And in the 2000's.
*The Workers have to always fight, because the Owner Class sees us all as a commodity and subhuman.*
Ok commie
You do have the freedom to educate yourself and move up OR move around. You're only imprisoning yourself with that mentality. 🤷♀️
@@MrsLizlike typical corporate lackey defending the wealthy!!
Thanks for sharing this infrromation.
The fight has not ended!
that seems to be the best I've gotten so far.
Watching on Labor Day 2020!:)
Same!
Dude, I'd kill to start school the day after Labour Day. I've never started less than two weeks before that.
Forcing children into school before summer is over is child abuse!
proud 20 year Teamster!!
I used to get labor day off until I got a union job. Actually, the work conditions that brought about labor day sound like the modern trucking industry here in the US. Truckers work 14+ hour days for weeks at a time without much more than the cost of living for pay when you consider their lifestyle. A new driver today makes about what I made as a new driver in 2002. Maybe instead of fighting for wages to increase, someone could figure out how to level off living expenses with more time off from work.
In Canada, Labour Day is usually the last day of summer vacation before school starts. At least, that's how it's been for me since I was in 1st grade.
In the US, Labor/Labour Day is the unofficial end of Summer.
Labor Day in Victoria is the second Monday in March. The Stone Masons Union were granted the eight hour day without a reduction in wages in 1856. The first workers in the world to receive it. 888 - eight hours rest, work, recreation, there is a monument to this in Carlton Vic. It soon spread to other occupations including women and children, and throughout Australia. In Victoria it was declared a paid public holiday in 1879.
Decades ahead of the US and Canada.
who else watching on labor day??
I am
In most countries around the world it's celebrated on May 1st, the official International Workers Day in memory of the Haymarket events. The USA/Canada just decided to move the celebration to another day to avoid the political (anti-government) connotations of IWD.
An old friend of mine said the very same thing about Unions. :(
This is important to do
Happy Labor Day! The fight must continue on! We have not reached the peak even though we've come so far. There's still injustices occurring in the workforce.
Yay! I get 2 days off this week!
The reason why Europe is different is explained at about 2:15- May Day & Haymarket Square Riots
What day is international worker's Day.?
1.5.1886 or 1.5.1890.
Thanks
I agree, I know about Europe, I'm from Brussels, Belgium, but living in the US since 1994 (age 13) up until now. I prefer May 1st.
Go back to Europe then
Live better work union!
Wow good to know
Just curious, could you mention anything specific about any Canadian connections to Labour Day? Feels like any mention of Canada in this video was a footnote, like nobody had actually bothered to do any research on Canadian labour history.
Well I know what to refer to myself in other parts of the Americans at least, which is probably the main area where people want the distinction. So thank you.
It is Labor Day and I'm a retired AFL-CIO affiliated public sector union full-time member.
To celebrate I went to my television MUSIC CHOICE selection. For Music of the Seasons -
Labor Day. And that saluted me with the Doobie Brothers singing: WHAT THE FOOLS BELIEVE.
"What the &%$%?", I asked myself. The next song was titled: LET THE DOGS OUT. " This is &^$",
I said to myself. And now the Music Choice Labor Day is giving me Sam Cooke singing me
his %&#@ CHAIN GANG. I decided the Music Choice Channel can go *^#$ itself without
me listening.
Hardworking People need to be celebrated.
also many other countries in the world outside Europe
I heard the majority of people hate their job… I wish we could shift the idea of labor so that everyone feels they have fulfilling and rewarding jobs/lives
May 1st is workers day all over the world... and is more important then ever for workers to protest and kick corporate butt
Essas Leis influenciaram ate mesmo o Brasil.
Like where?
If you ever hate your job just remember, 12 hours a day 6 days a week.
Wikipedia has a much more in depth history of Canadian Labour Day if you want to learn the finer details.
Happy Labor Day 2021.
We need it seven days a week.
I'm French Canadian and in my college books Americans are, most of the time, called états-unien.
so why is labor day different in other countries?
May the first!
Cause it's the day before school starts for many. But yeah, after watching this video, you start to think of the millions of children who don't get to go to school and have to work instead, and you feel a bit more thankful that you have the opportunity to go to school.
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While some of us truckers are working 14 hour days, check out our log rules, we go by 3 different clocks, 11,14,&70...
That's all well and good though unless you're an OTR driver, that doesn't go home, then it's basically 24,7,365...
Shout out though to all the home health aides, that live in the patients home, they may only get paid for 8 or 10 hours, but anything that happens with the patient you're still responsible for,
5th september 1882 it was tuesday?
1st of May
It depends on the union and you have to consider how their power comes about, basically through cooperation of members. The real problem with unions is that while it might seem obvious to create and join them, the reality of what it takes to make a successful union can be unpleasant, and the fact that union leaders are people, the same as the business owners. But to say that it's bad for workers to have the ability to join together and bargain collectively is ridiculous.
wow..... so they only limited the hours in a work day to manage the high demand for labor we had during the Great Depression
cool
Well that's a firm accusation you're making there, buddy!
I need a day off after all my labors.
I'm getting a lot of variations of that. And a lot of insults.
If you look at workplace safety and compensation / fringe Benoit trends from before and after labor unions, you see they didn't accomplish much. Kids were working less, people's jobs were getting safer, and they were getting paid more year after year before the government stepped in.
Ten, child labor was often as young as four
As a child I always wanted to do some (adult's) work. Like manufacturing or something. Never though they had a law on child labor.
Well to be honest I don't speak Japanese but I'm sure I've read translations where they refer to Americans as both "Americans" and something along the lines as "State Unadians", as well as some African nations. But since my info is second hand I could be wrong.
So what should we call people from the USA? I would really like to know.
Add more canadian things please!!!!
no prob
The more you know
The same in Mexico.
Great information... need to talk faster. This video should have been less than 3:00 given amount of information. It's not even a natural pace, the narrator is obviously pacing himself.
Yeah, I get what you are saying. But I can tell you that most people from the US would be insulted if someone referred to them with the last 3, and a specific section would really take offense to yankee. I looked up gringos and it seems ok, and United Statan seems the best answer I have gotten so far.
Thank Labor Unions!
1st may is the real labour day!
If it's Labor Day how come no one is working?
then it would just be,a normal working day XD
@@bluehoodieguy7568 Not for government workers
Uh, why?
USAres or United Statesian. I hope there is someone out there that gets this reference.
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a lot of people who come from eastern europe to uk work, do 12h 6 days a week and they don't do it of their own free will. they are made by their employees to do that and if they don't comply they are automatically fired. I have been a victim of that myself. and you get health issues as well. your back gets broke to shit after few years and on top of that you most likely will suffer from depression as you are constantly pressured at work to meet higher and higher targets. shit is ridiculous.
We had the May Day but that is was anti corporate, I mean anti American, according to it's "patriotic" detractors.
Anylitical Geometry or Manual labor? Hmmmm...
God creates the universe and everything in it and he gets 1 day off per week. We do all the work to keep it running and we get 1 day off per year lol
We as Christians are suppose to "remember the sabbath and keep it holy". Meaning we to are suppose to keep 1 day per week set aside for a complete day off. We due to increased cost of living, but mostly due to a nation without faith fail to do so. As a child I remember lazy Sundays... My parents would even cook on Sunday, they prepared everything Saturday night. Have a great day, God bless!
Well I can definitely see Latin America using that, I do somewhat doubt that say the Chinese refer to us as that.
different spellings for some words.
wtf!? we celebrate it in Bulgaria too
well, some people in Latin America call Americans "unitedian"