Not-So-Fun-Fact! The 12-hour workday was a reform which shortened a previously longer (unregulated) working day, which could be 16-18 hours a day, six days a week. Even after this reform, many industrial employers would attempt to screw over their workers by messing with the factory’s clocks - one reason why some older unions still maintain their hard-won right to handle the company clocks to this day.
Not-So-Fun-Fact! The 12-hour workday was a reform which shortened a previously longer (unregulated) working day, which could be 16-18 hours a day, six days a week. Even after this reform, many industrial employers would attempt to screw over their workers by messing with the factory’s clocks - one reason why some older unions still maintain their hard-won right to handle the company clocks to this day.
Oh! Now tell me about the Haymarket riots and inventing the weekend.
Oh you mean the reason that the most badass American ever, Lucy Parsons, became a widow