By the late 1950s, a majority of employees had opted to resume an eight-hour day. Those who didn’t were mostly women, and they stayed with their six-hour schedule until the mid-1980s.

The workers demanded an eight-hour day at a time when a 60-hour workweek was common. “The slogan was eight hours work, eight hours play, eight hours rest,” said Peter Linebaugh, ...

Eventually, American workers would win their struggle for the eight-hour workday, but May Day itself has been largely forgotten in the United States despite its continued recognition internationally.

Women told President Coolidge last week what he should do so that posterity might rank his name along with Lincoln's.. The deed essential for such fame was his getting behind the proposed ...

In the 1880s, labor leaders believed that the eight-hour day was one of the only demands that could unite all working people. Today, the four-day week could do the same.

The eight-hour workday was effectively made law by the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act, which mandated a 40-hour work week with overtime pay, still the standard in the U.S. to this day.

And just like the eight-hour workday, on May Day we seek to use the power of our labor to make our radical demand—a decent standard of living for the working class—common sense.

If it’s eight-hour days, it’s eight-hour days. What that meant for us — because this is an independent film and there wasn’t an endless supply of financing — It was a set of priorities.