Today – September 6 – is Labor Day in the United States. It falls on the first Monday of every September, and it’s the day when the contributions of the American workforce are meant to be commemorated.
However, in this day and age it’s less about remembering the past and how labor laws were changed for the better, and more about having a last long weekend before the summer gives way to autumn.
This Discovery Channel video attempts to explain the history of Labor Day is words and pictures. I can’t help thinking it should be shown to schoolchildren to remind them how fortunate they, and even their parents are, compared to people 100 years ago.
Labor Day for me means struggling to find interesting things on the Web, as everyone else has the day off. But I’m not bitter about it. Much.
