Labor history may refer to:
- Labor history (discipline), a subfield of the discipline of history.
- Labor history of the United States, in which the history of organized labor is documented, as well as the more general history of "working people" in the United States (US).
- The Australian labour movement, including its history.
- The Labor History journal, a scholarly publication published by Taylor & Francis.
- Labour History, a scholarly journal published in Australia by the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History (ASSLH).
- The Labour History Review, a scholarly journal published in the United Kingdom (UK) by the Society for the Study of Labour History.
Famous quotes containing the words labor and/or history:
“Women of a selected class, by the use of slaves and servants have become inactive, the mere recipients of values, no longer creators but “feeding on unearned wealth.” This hurts their nature and debases the social fabric. If a woman does no labor in her home which could properly make her self-supporting outside that home she is in duty bound to do something outside her home to justify her claim to support.”
—Anna Garlin Spencer (1851–1931)
“There is one great fact, characteristic of this our nineteenth century, a fact which no party dares deny. On the one hand, there have started into life industrial and scientific forces which no epoch of former human history had ever suspected. On the other hand, there exist symptoms of decay, far surpassing the horrors recorded of the latter times of the Roman empire. In our days everything seems pregnant with its contrary.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)