Labor Day (occurring on Monday, September 6 in 2021) is an annual celebration of workers and their achievements, originated during one of American labor history’s most dismal chapters. Specifically, Labor Day was created by the labor movement in the late 19th century and became a federal holiday in 1894. The backstory? In the late 1800s, at the height of the US Industrial Revolution, the average American worked 12-hour days and seven-day weeks in order to sustain a very modes