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As far as I know the 8h workday is purely the result of industrial three-shift work

• vidarh 12y ago
  No, it's the result of nearly a century of unions fighting tooth and nail. The 8 hour working day was first promoted by Robert Owen in 1817, using the slogan "Eight hours labour, Eight hours recreation, Eight hours rest". It was picked up by various unions and other organizations towards the middle of the century, such as the first International - the International Working Mens Association, where people like Marx and Bakunin were leading forces. But in most places they met fierce opposition, and many places it took decades of strikes and demonstrations and campaigning to push it through.
• lilsunnybee 12y ago
  Without organized labor we'd all be working at least 12-hour-days of two-shift work.