40 Hours to Freedom: The Invention of the Weekend
Conflicted: A History Podcast
The Progress Toward a Shorter Workweek
The labor movement, as diverse and scattered as it was, wanted one thing and one thing in particular. An eight-hour work day. As historian Daniel Rogers observed, workers dreamed of a workday short enough to push labor out of the center of their lives. But like all progress, the march towards shorter hours was a slow and incremental project constantly assailed by soldiers of the status quo.
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