Aug 20, 2010

8-Hour Work Day



I've worked in the mill in my day, until nine o'clock at night, from seven in the mornin'…I wouldn't want to go back to it, and I don't think anyone else would. An eight hour day is long enough.

Matthew White,
circa 1938-1939.
American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940

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