The fight for the 8-hour workday once captivated the American political imagination much like ambitious, potentially transformative policy proposals like Medicare for All and the Green New Deal have become rallying cries for the working class.
days, when the clock seems frozen in time and the workday drags on, and on, and on. Eight hours can feel like a lifetime, the minutes crawling by, your mood souring by the second.
Now imagine how much worse you’d feel if you had been standing on a hard factory floor for eight hours already and were staring down two more hours, or four, or even more than that? And what if you were pulling those kind of interminable days six times a week—or seven? That’s what a typical day used to be like for the typical worker in an American city, who wouldat a factory, slaughterhouse, cotton mill, or garment shop until they could trudge home and collapse for a few hours before waking up...
The eight-hour day and the two-day weekend to which we’ve become so accustomed were not always a given. For many years, they were little more than a pipe dream, the kind of outlandish notions that anarchists, socialists, and trade unionists whispered about at clandestine meetings . The idea of havingoff per week to rest and spend time with family once seemed like an unimaginable luxury to the toiling class, as out of reach as a $15 minimum wage .
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