The Eight-Hour Workday

Workers in Boston eventually got fed up with the inhumane status quo and started developing class consciousness. In 1825 they organized a strike movement that gradually spread throughout the northeast of the country Over the next 25 years or so a number of states gave in and conceded to a 10-hour workday Though it often wasn't enforced Then in 1864 the international working men's association, which included a particular drunken German philosopher announced that an eight-hour work day was quote the first step in the emancipation of the working class. The process of winning this shorter day took literally decades It included major strikes from across the labor landscape from Chinese immigrant railroad workers to New York City tradesmen And in 1886 we saw