The eight-hour day movement (also known as the 40-hour week movement or the short-time movement) was a social movement to regulate the length of a working...

the eight-hour day movement, which advocated eight hours for work, eight hours for recreation, and eight hours for rest. In most countries, Labour Day is...

Chartist, and Australian trade unionist who was active in the eight-hour day movement in the 1850s. Stephens was born in Chepstow, Monmouthshire in south...

Reduction of hours of work may refer to: Six-hour day, proposed as an alternative to a four-day week Eight-hour day movement, a former social movement to regulate...

unionist who was a leading figure in the successful and influential eight hour day movement in Melbourne, Australia. He was born in Springfield, Fife, Scotland...

The 40-hour week movement, or eight-hour day movement, was a social movement to regulate the length of a working day. 40-hour week may also refer to: Forty-Hour...

The 1872 New York City eight hour day strike was one of the first citywide strikes for the eight hour day in North America. More than 100,000 workers in...

the Ipswich Workers' Political Union, and was involved in the eight-hour day movement in provincial Queensland. His political activities, particularly...

The movement for a recognised right to rest, play and have leisure time. can be traced back to the 19th century and the eight-hour day movement. As early...

8 hours of spare time, 8 hours of rest, 8 hours of sleep (a parody of a popular slogan of the eight-hour day movement: "Eight hours' labour, Eight hours'...

to the widespread eight-hour day, or any other time arrangement. It has also been proposed as a better alternative to the four-day week, another proposed...

extended the history of the eight-hour day movement to colonial times. The authors argued that debate over the length of the work-day or work-week has been...

its origins in the eight-hour day movement, which advocated eight hours for work, eight hours for recreation, and eight hours for rest. On 21 April 1856...

many workers may not know is that May Day had its origins here at Haymarket, and in the Eight Hour Day movement that emerged after the Civil War." Recounting...

of the Labour movement in South Australia (Wakefield Press, 1985). Niland, John. "The birth of the movement for an eight hour working day in New South...

movement, focusing on winning wage rises and keeping the ALH away from broader trade union struggles of the time, notably the Eight-Hour Day movement...

customary five-day workweek. This arrangement can be a part of flexible working hours, and is sometimes used to cut costs. The four-day week movement has grown...

earliest days in New Zealand Edward had been a supporter of the "eight-hour day" movement. He was also fully in favour of free, secular and compulsory education...

early New Zealand settler often credited with the establishment of the eight-hour day in New Zealand. Parnell was born in London, England, on 19 February...

figure in labor movement in the United States during the late 19th century. He is best known as a leading advocate of the eight-hour work day. The effect...

popularity. The Eight Hour Day Movement demonstration processions, popular in the early 1900s, were followed by Labour Day and May Day Marches held by...

was the Eight Hour Day movement, which was initiated in Queensland in 1858 by stonemasons working for John Petrie in Brisbane. The movement remained...

Early Closing Movement (ECM), an organization tied to labor history, the eight-hour day movement, and indirectly, the Temperance movement's efforts to regulate...

hours in the day. But since it is physically impossible to exploit the same individual labour-power constantly, during the night as well as the day,...

worker's base wage, for each hour of work past forty. California also applies this rule to work in excess of eight hours per day, but exemptions and exceptions...

Australian Eight Hour Day movement. The program of more than 15 events was developed by the Victorian Trades Hall Council's Eight Hour Day 150th Anniversary...

referendum vote for the eight-hour day with support from 72 percent of Colorado's electorate, the WFM's goal of an eight-hour law was still defeated by...

clocks were made with two types of movement: eight-day and one-day (30-hour) movements. A clock with an eight-day movement required winding only once a week...

unions, and typically establishes terms regarding wage scales, working hours, training, health and safety, overtime, grievance mechanisms, and rights...

international demonstration" in support of working-class demands for the eight-hour day. The date was chosen by the American Federation of Labor to commemorate...