Put away your patent leather shoes, your white slacks, and your Billy Bragg records, because Labor Day is over. Daniel Gross notes in the New York Times that freelancers don't really get to celebrate Labor Day anyway. "For us," he says, "The final weeks of August are hardly a time for relaxation."

For bonus points, my father spent his entire career in labor relations. Here is his favorite joke:

Q: What woman was in labor the longest?
A: Frances Perkins.

You lose those points if you have to look up who Frances Perkins was.