Reconfiguring Labor Day: The convergence of the labor and environmental movements

Throughout the 20th century, the interests of labor groups were firmly entrenched in the populist vision and the platform of the Democratic Party. But starting in the 1960s and 1970s, a chasm began to grow within the Democratic Party between the established interests of the labor movement and the emerging interests of the environmental movement. But new coalitions like the Apollo Alliance and others are making efforts to mend those fences and bring labor and environment back together.