40 Hours to Freedom: The Invention of the Weekend
Conflicted: A History Podcast
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What Do They Do With the Starving Intellect?
In the mid-1800s, labor activists began talking to each other in stirring, radical, even revolutionary language. As one activist writing under the alias Juliana wrote in 1847, quote, Awake, awake,. and arise from the low groveling charms of dollars and cents to a knowledge of your own high and holy duties and destinies. And so a second American revolution exploded into consciousness among the factories, mills and stockyards of the United States. The primary objective was nothing more than clawing back a little free time at the end of the day.
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