One Person, One List, One Rewrite Last month we covered the bloodiest era in American labor history. Haymarket. Homestead. Pullman. The Triangle Shirtwaist fire. Workers died in the streets, in factories, on railroad tracks.  Each tragedy produced outrage. Some produced commissions. A few produced laws. But one produced a notable woman: Frances Perkins. Perkins produced the architecture of the modern employer-employee compact in America. Social Security, the minimum wage, the

American labor history from 1886 to 1914 has many horrific events: A bomb explodes in a Chicago square. Private detectives open fire on striking steelworkers. Federal troops crush a railroad walkout. Women and children burn alive in a factory. A tent colony of miners gets attacked by the National Guard.  These events led to labor reforms that include: The eight-hour workday The workweek defined as spanning Monday to Friday Child labor laws The right to organize as a collectiv