print email comment close Working Heroes: Men and Women Who Shaped America's Labor Movement URL: http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/history/history/bios.cfm Description: Brief biographies of U.S. labor leaders. Individuals include César Chávez ("folk hero and symbol of hope who organized a union of farmworkers"), Eugene Debs ("apostle of industrial unionism"), George Meany ("builder of the modern AFL-CIO"), and Frances Perkins ("committed labor secretary and first woman in a presidential cabinet position"). From the AFL-CIO. Publisher: AFL-CIO Extra Keywords cesar chavez LII Database Information: Record 24333 created by Maria Brandt on 08/20/2007 Last modification on 08/27/2007 Published: 08/29/2007   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/24333