eight-hour day
Labor movement victory
The eight-hour day is the standard workday length in most industrialized countries, dividing the day into thirds: eight hours of work, eight hours of leisure, eight hours of rest.
The concept emerged from 19th-century labor movements and remains a cornerstone of employment law.
The union fought for the eight-hour day.
- workdayStandard labor period
- strikeForceful impact or stoppage
- labour lawRules governing workplace relationships
- overtimeWork beyond scheduled hours
- time and a halfFifty percent wage bonus
flextime · work life balance · job · shift · lunch break · factory floor · union · labor movement · standard · worker solidarity · picket line · labor union · May Day · workweek · labor · industrialization · labor reform · working time
- labor historyAFL-CIO, workers, labor movement, CIO, laborers
- labor movementsgeneral strike, general strikes, labor strikes, picket lines, unionization
- Wilson EraWoodrow Wilson, League of Nations, Treaty of Versailles, Clayton Act, Paris Peace Conference
- laborlabor, labor union, work, labor force, laborers
eight-hour daydouble shift
Two work periods consecutively
overwork · part-time work · zero-hour contract · gig economy
eight-hour dayworker exploitation
Mistreating employees for profit
wage slavery · labor exploitation · child labor · workhouse conditions · at-will employment
eight-hour dayon-call work
Jobs with unpredictable scheduling
flexible hours · hustle culture · overwork · workaholism · burnout culture