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Part One: The Haymarket Affair: The Bomb & the Eight-Hour Workday

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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The Eight Hour Workday

The chicago anarchists were opposed to the eight hour struggle, not because they were opposed to better conditions for workers. They weren't falking around even the moderate members of the labor movement. And so instead, by 18 86, the ch Chicago anarchists were all in. "We will take or win all possible reforms with the same spirit that one tears occupied territory from the enemy's grasp" - a malatesta quote.

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