Is the American Labor Day a Broader Story?

Cobily: In the early days, these kind of may day celebrations were even had a kind of revolutionary character. They seemed a bit militant in their approach to labor issues. I mean, i wonder whether the fact that it's a public holiday now has that itself change the nature of the kind of union demonstrations? Is this a broader story of labor unions getting sort of coapted by the existing economic system, or overtime? To a degree, yes. Though you could say, of course, that the demand for an eight hour day and a public holiday are not revolutionary demands at any point, that they are reformists.