Ten-Hour Day Movement
United States 1820s-1850s
Synopsis
The 10-Hour Movement began among skilled craftsmen in the major East Coast cities of the United States in the early 1820s. Workers' earl...
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Eight Hours
"Eight Hours"
Words by I. G. Blanchard; music by Rev. Jesse H. Jones
Originally published in 1878
Reprinted in American Labor Songs of the Nineteenth Century, 1975
Of...
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Eight-Hour Day Movement
United States 1860s-1900s
Synopsis
For more than a century, American workers struggled for a shorter workday. Throughout the nineteenth century and almost halfway through the t...
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Ten-Hour Day Movement
Eight Hours
Eight-Hour Day Movement