Labor Day

The International Workers' Day or May Day is the celebration par excellence of the world labor movement. It is a journey that has been commonly used to perform different social and labor demands in favor of the working classes by essentially socialist movements, anarchists and communists, among others.

Since its establishment in most countries, by agreement of the Socialist Workers' Congress of the Second International, held in Paris in 1889, it is a day of struggle and a tribute to the Martyrs of Chicago. These anarcho-syndicalists were executed in the United States to participate in the days of struggle for the achievement of the working day of eight hours, which originated in the strike that began on May 1, 1886 and its peak three days later, the May 4, at the Haymarket Riot. From then on it it became a day of protest for the rights of workers in general which is held in greater or lesser extent worldwide

                                                        

Origin of the festival

I made that led to this celebration are contextualized at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution in the United States. In the late nineteenth century Chicago was the second city in population of EE. UU. West and Southeast rail arriving each year thousands of unemployed farmers, creating the first humble villas that housed hundreds of thousands of workers. In addition, these urban centers welcomed migrants from around the world throughout the nineteenth century

Labor Day in Ecuador, who should not serve on this day, Ecuadorians prefer to travel outside their respective cities, but neither is discarded mobilization of labor unions

As a special holiday, midweek, people preferred to take to the streets to wander. On this occasion the trips were almost nil, because there was very little time for it, especially for those who wanted to visit someone distant.

Informal traders highlighted on this date, because as in a normal day, took to the streets to offer their products.