The monument recognizes the labor leader's fight for the eight-hour workday and the end of child workers. But his legacy is more complicated. At the corner of Pulaski Road and Foster Avenue on Chicago ...

Any student of American labor history knows the name Samuel Gompers, founder of the American Federation of Labor in 1886. He was hugely influential in U.S. politics and left an indelible mark on the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Samuel Gompers's vision of capitalist-friendly unionism and political pragmatism largely dominated the labor movement throughout ...