Looking back at the sweeping changes of the industrial era, can we anticipate challenges and opportunities created by this new age of AI?

For Christian de Rezendes, the documentary has been a labor of love, one he didn't expect to grow so big and take so long.

Throughout most of human history, child labor, or the use of children as workers, has been practiced. However, it reached its ...

Rerum Novarum also had a profound influence on the Catholic Church itself. The document inaugurated what’s now known as ...

The Industrial Revolution was a turning point in human history, marking the shift from agrarian societies to industrialized ...

Child labor might have shocked that outsider, but it was all too commonplace then across urban, industrial America (and on farms where it had been customary for centuries).

Who has the power? Workers or bosses? It changes through the ages, though it's usually the bosses. Today, we look at two key moments when the power of labor shifted, for better and worse, and we ...

A worker leaves the Tyson Foods plant in Waterloo, Iowa, in 2020. A bill advancing in the Iowa state Senate would relax child labor protections to allow 14-year-olds to work in industrial freezers ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – In the past two years, lawmakers in at least 11 states have sought to loosen child labor laws to help employers fill empty jobs, even as federal officials and news ...

After the industrial revolution began in Britain, lawmakers spent years debating whether and how to intervene over widespread child labour.

The Early Labor Movement The industrial revolution stands out as a time of great prosperity and expansion as America entered the modern era.