The eight-hour day movement (also known as the 40-hour week movement or the short-time movement) was a social movement to regulate the length of a working...

eight-hour day movement, which advocated eight hours for work, eight hours for recreation, and eight hours for rest. For most countries, Labour Day is synonymous...

The 40-hour week movement, or eight-hour day movement, was a social movement to regulate the length of a working day. 40-hour week may also refer to: Forty-Hour...

unionist who was a leading figure in the successful and influential eight hour day movement in Melbourne, Australia. He was born in Springfield, Fife, Scotland...

Chartist, and Australian trade unionist who was active in the eight-hour day movement in the 1850s. Stephens was born in Chepstow, Monmouthshire in south...

to the widespread eight-hour day, or any other time arrangement. It has also been proposed as a better alternative to the four-day week, another proposed...

8 hours of spare time, 8 hours of rest, 8 hours of sleep (a parody of a popular slogan of the eight-hour day movement: "Eight hours' labour, Eight hours'...

many workers may not know is that May Day had its origins here at Haymarket, and in the Eight Hour Day movement that emerged after the Civil War." Recounting...

its origins in the eight-hour day movement, which advocated eight hours for work, eight hours for recreation, and eight hours for rest. On 21 April 1856...

The movement for a recognised right to rest, play and have leisure time. can be traced back to the 19th century and the eight-hour day movement. As early...

the Ipswich Workers' Political Union, and was involved in the eight-hour day movement in provincial Queensland. His political activities, particularly...

early New Zealand settler often credited with the establishment of the eight-hour day in New Zealand. Parnell was born in London, England, on 19 February...

Reduction of hours of work may refer to: Six-hour day, proposed as an alternative to a four-day week Eight-hour day, the product of a social movement to regulate...

ultimatum to employers that in six months time, masons would only work an eight-hour day. However men working on the Holy Trinity Church (Garrison Church) in...

extended the history of the eight-hour day movement to colonial times. The authors argued that debate over the length of the work-day or work-week has been...

clocks were made with two types of movement: eight-day and one-day (30-hour) movements. A clock with an eight-day movement required winding only once a week...

international demonstration" in support of working-class demands for the eight-hour day. The 1 May date was chosen by the American Federation of Labor to commemorate...

movement, focusing on winning wage rises and keeping the ALH away from broader trade union struggles of the time, notably the Eight-Hour Day movement...

earliest days in New Zealand Edward had been a supporter of the "eight-hour day" movement. He was also fully in favour of free, secular and compulsory education...

arrangement can be a part of flexible working hours, and is sometimes used to cut costs. The four-day week movement has grown considerably in recent years,...

popularity. The Eight Hour Day Movement demonstration processions, popular in the early 1900s, were followed by Labour Day and May Day Marches held by...

was the Eight Hour Day movement, which was initiated in Queensland in 1858 by stonemasons working for John Petrie in Brisbane. The movement remained...

Early Closing Movement (ECM), an organization tied to labor history, the eight-hour day movement, and indirectly, the Temperance movement's efforts to regulate...

worker's base wage, for each hour of work past forty. California also applies this rule to work in excess of eight hours per day, but exemptions and exceptions...

point where the family of eight-year-old Kim Il Sung's took the lead of the independence movement. The epicenter of the movement is taught as being Pyongyang...

figure in labor movement in the United States during the late 19th century. He is best known as a leading advocate of the eight-hour work day. The effect...

Australian Eight Hour Day movement. The program of more than 15 events was developed by the Victorian Trades Hall Council's Eight Hour Day 150th Anniversary...

Dhaka, issued a 24-hour ultimatum for the unconditional release of the six coordinators of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement currently in Detective...

An hour (symbol: h; also abbreviated hr) is a unit of time historically reckoned as 1⁄24 of a day and defined contemporarily as exactly 3,600 seconds (SI)...

Standards Act (労働基準法) of 1947 provides for an eight-hour work day and 40-hour workweek with at least one day off per week. The act requires a premium of...