Labor Day is something of an anomaly among major observances on the American holiday calendar. There are national holidays that honor people who served in the military (Memorial Day and Veterans ...

To many Americans, Labor Day is the last day of a luxuriant three-day weekend that marks the culmination of summer and the start of fall. It's a day of backyard barbecues and nostalgia, end-of ...

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Before that, more than 30 states were already officially celebrating it. The first Labor Day was celebrated on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 1882, in New York City, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

Laborem exercens, published by Pope John Paul II in 1981, broke new ground in the church's reflection on labor. "It remains a fruitful guide," Michael Sean Winters writes.