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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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'...
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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...
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Public holidays in Australia (redirect from Teacher's Day (Australia))
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...
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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...
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the Ipswich Workers' Political Union, and was involved in the eight-hour day movement in provincial Queensland. His political activities, particularly...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Grandfather clock (redirect from Eight-day clock)
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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popularity. The Eight Hour Day Movement demonstration processions, popular in the early 1900s, were followed by Labour Day and May Day Marches held by...
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was the Eight Hour Day movement, which was initiated in Queensland in 1858 by stonemasons working for John Petrie in Brisbane. The movement remained...
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Early Closing Movement (ECM), an organization tied to labor history, the eight-hour day movement, and indirectly, the Temperance movement's efforts to regulate...
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Working time (redirect from 48-hour week)
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...
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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...
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Ira Steward (section Grand Eight Hour League)
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...
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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...
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Dhaka, issued a 24-hour ultimatum for the unconditional release of the six coordinators of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement currently in Detective...
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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)...
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Overtime (redirect from Overtime hours)
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...
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