Eight-hour day
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
|
Related e |
|
Featured: |
The eight-hour day movement or 40-hour week movement, also known as the short-time movement, had its origins in the Industrial Revolution in Britain, where industrial production in large factories transformed working life. The use of child labour was common. The working day could range from 10 to 16 hours for six days a week.
[edit]
See also
- 9 to 5
- Australian labour movement
- Flextime
- Haymarket Riot
- Hours of Work (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1930 - an ILO Convention
- Hours of Work (Industry) Convention, 1919
- Hours of Work and Manning (Sea) Convention, 1936
- Labour Day
- May Day
- Overtime
- Trade Union
- Working time
- Work-life balance
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Eight-hour day" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.
