Worktime between Haymarket and the Popular Front
An International Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11213565 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gary Cross (Pennsylvania State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Pages | 79-93 |
| Publication date | 1986-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Labor and Working-Class History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0147-5479 • E-ISSN: 1471-6445 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0147547900016859 |
| OpenAlex | W2066554011 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 36 |
The quest for an eight-hour day was the central issue of the struggles leading to the Haymarket massacre of 1886. It also was at the heart of a widening scope of labor activity in the 1880s. The AFL's call for national eight-hour demonstrations on May 1, 1890 encouraged admiring European labor movements to join the Americans in an international strike for eight hours, the event which partially inspired the organizing of the Second International. Given these often-noted facts, it is ironic that the history of the hours issue after 1890, and especially between World War I and the popular front, when the major reductions in worktime occurred, has been largely neglected by American and European labor historians. In the half-century between Haymarket and the popular front worktime particularly dominated the attention of international labor and produced the forty-hour week standard and the ideal of the annual vacation
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Eight hours for what we will
The first shop stewards' movement.
Beyond equality
Family structure in nineteenth century Lancashire.
Workers' control in America
Housewife or Harlot
The Birth of the Movement for an Eight Hour Working Day in New South Wales
The Culture of Consent
The eight hour day and the development of the Labour movement in Victoria in the eighteen‐fifties
Historical Attitudes Toward the Increase of Free Time in the Twentieth Century
Wages and Hours
Une erreur de politique économique
The end of shorter hours
Work, Community, and Power
Trade Unions and the Engineering Industry Dispute at Barrow-in-Furness, 1897–98
Working Hours in British Industry
Working Hours in British Industry. An Economic History
The Quest for Leisure
The Birth of the Weekend and the Revolts against Work
Work, Community and Power
Shop Floor Bargaining and the State
Hours of Work in British Industry
Worker's Control in America. Studies in the History of Work, Technology and Labor Struggles
Hours of Labour
The Miners and the Eight-Hour Day, 1863-1910
The Erosion of State Intervention in Britain, 1917-24
Les Ouvriers en greve, France 1871-1890
The First Shop Stewards' Movement
The Rationalization of Leisure
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,03 |
| Citation span | 1987 - 1987 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |