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

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...

movement, which advocated eight hours for work, eight hours for recreation, and eight hours for rest. For most countries, Labour Day is synonymous with, or...

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...

06:00 or 07:00 for eight-hour shifts, and from 18:00 to 06:00 for twelve-hour shifts. F free days O days off This is defined as a day on which a shift does...

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...

encountered the seven-day week and for a time attempted to include both. The popularity of the seven-day rhythm won, and the eight-day week disappeared. The...

Eight Hours Don't Make a Day (German: Acht Stunden sind kein Tag) (also translated as (Eight Hours Are Not a Day) is a West German television miniseries...

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)...

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...

manual laborer performs work equal to about half a kilowatt-hour over an eight-hour day. To convert a quantity measured in a unit in the left column...

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...

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...

Act was a United States federal law passed in 1916 that established an eight-hour workday, with additional pay for overtime work, for interstate railroad...

for adoption of the eight-hour day effective May 1, 1886. While negotiation was envisioned for achievement of the shortened work day, use of the strike...

employees work from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm, 6 days per week; i.e. 72 hours per week, 12 hours per day. A number of Mainland Chinese internet companies have adopted...

hours in the day. But since it is physically impossible to exploit the same individual labour-power constantly, during the night as well as the day,...

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...

between 1913 and 1919, when weekly hours fell by about eight percent. In 1926, Henry Ford standardized on a five-day workweek, instead of the prevalent...

wage abolitionism. Her work against sweatshops and for the minimum wage, eight-hour workdays, and children's rights is widely regarded today. From its founding...

compared to FAA's offer of $40 million) and a 32-hour workweek (a four-day week and an eight-hour day combined). In addition, PATCO wanted to be excluded...

strike against their employers, demanding the enforcement of an eight-hour work day. By Monday, May 3, the number of participants had increased to over...

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

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...

gives the rate of doing work or power. A laborer over the course of an eight-hour day can sustain an average output of about 75 watts; higher power levels...

Porter notes that a mule can travel about 3 miles per hour, covering 24 miles in an eight-hour day. In a translation by J. B. Bury (Priscus, fr. 8 in Fragmenta...

rally began peacefully in support of workers striking for an eight-hour work day, the day after the events at the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company...

Australian working class opinion behind certain initiatives like the eight-hour day or compulsory arbitration. In the early 1980s this unifying impulse...

concerning the duration of the working day in the mining industry was amended by extending the eight-hour day to all classes of workers, "whether employed...

as a leading advocate of the eight-hour work day. The effect would need to open jobs for more workers, and open new hours of leisure. Though little is...