1. Key People. Go to the Web site for the Bureau of Labor Statistics and look for ‘‘Birth of a federation:

Mr. Gompers endeavors ‘not to build a bubble’,’’ an article published in the Monthly Labor Review, November 1981. Why is the event described in the article significant to the history of the labor movement?

The U.S. Department of Labor has a Labor Hall of Fame. Find the DOL Web site and comment on why you think the following people were chosen:

Eugene V. Debs, Mother Jones, John L. Lewis, George Meany, Frances Perkins, Terence V. Powderly, A. Philip Randolph, and Walter Reuther.

Locate Labor History on the Web made available by the AFL-CIO. Try your hand at Vital Pursuits, which provides a different question on labor history each day.