This eye-opening and engaging history of the worker actions that brought us weekends, pay equality, desegregation, an end to child labor and more documents how the labor movement has shaped America and how it intersects with many of the major issues facing modern teens.

The age of discovery to the Civil War 1492-1865 -- The industrial revolution to the Gilded Age 1873-1900 -- The Progressive Area 1900-1916 -- World War I and the first Red Scare 1917-1920 -- The Great Depression and the New Deal 1929-1938 -- The second World War, the second Red Scare, and the start of the Cold War 1938-1955 -- The golden age of capitalism and labor peace 1955-1973 -- Neoliberalism and the labor movement decline 1975-2008 -- Progressive neoliberalism 2008-the present.