May Day or International Workers’ Day, celebrated annually on May 1, became an internationally recognized holiday after thousands of American workers held a general strike in 1886 for an eight-hour work day in Haymarket Square in Chicago. This was a major turning point for the worker movement in the U.S. amid the backdrop of a growing industrial America and the shift towards monopoly capitalism — or the concentration of profit from growing industries and mass production that goes not to the workers, but to the “geniuses” of finances.
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