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The 8-hour workday movement in the US predates Marxism, let alone communism.
by tptacek 3mo ago
The 8-hour workday movement in the US predates Marxism, let alone communism.
- TheOtherHobbes 3mo agoIt was explicitly socialist in the UK. There was a paternal element of duty-of-care-and-welfare to factory/business ownership in the UK - patchy, but very real - which flared briefly in the US but is completely absent now. It's still present in Europe, to varying degrees.
- Fricken 3mo agoIt was signed into law with the fair labour standards act of 1938, as part of the New Deal under FDR.