The Workers – An Experiment in Reality: The West – Audiobook
THE WORKERS – AN EXPERIMENT IN REALITY: THE WEST – AUDIOBOOK By Walter A. Wyckoff (1865 – 1908) A young scholar, recently graduated from Princeton College, travels across the United States as a member of the working class, taking any job he could find, enduring hardships and struggling to make a living. He travelled mainly on […]
The Workers – An Experiment in Reality: The East – Audiobook
THE WORKERS – AN EXPERIMENT IN REALITY: THE EAST – AUDIOBOOK Walter A. Wyckoff (1865 – 1908) A young scholar, recently graduated from Princeton College, travels across the United States as a member of the working class, taking any job he could find, enduring hardships and struggling to make a living. He travelled mainly on foot, […]
Why Do We Have an 8-Hour Working Day?
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The working day as we now know it was the result of international, cross-industry labour efforts from workers, unions and activists, spanning well over a century of campaign, unrest and even death. The Industrial Revolution, with the spread of electrical lighting and extremely low hourly wages, had ended the traditional, rural working patterns of sun up to sun down, and meant that in some industries workers were forced to endure up to 18-hour shifts.