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Column: The 8-hour workday was the paramount goal of unions in the 1800s. Is the 4-day workweek next?
That was the case in the 1870s and 1880s, when the eight-hour day became the rallying cry for the Knights of Labor, the first truly national industrial labor union. The eight-hour campaign ...
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Labor Historian Clete Daniel Tells Us Why We’re Still Wage Slaves
Q: When did the eight-hour day become U.S. law? During President Franklin Roosevelt's Administration, the government enacted a whole package of fair labor standards covering maximum hours ...
The Independent13d
World Sleep Day: The eight-hour sleep myth and why you’re getting bedtime all wrong
Like, for instance, the idea that we need eight solid hours of sleep per night ... Calling it a scam is a disgrace Forget the four-day week – the future of work is the six-hour day Welcome metabolic ...
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The Effect of an Eight Hours' Day on Wages and the Unemployed
The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. The Quarterly Journal of Economics Vol. 9, No. 4, Jul., 1895 The Effect of an Eight Hours' Day on Wag... The Effect of an Eight Hours' Day on Wages and ...
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This man spends 8 hours every day commuting. He's not alone.
His eight-hour round-trip typically begins at 6 a.m. He’ll be at his desk by 10, having begun work earlier on his laptop. He leaves the office by 4 p.m. and arrives home about 8. Ross became a ...