On June 6, 1835, coal workers in Philadelphia walked off the job for shorter hours and higher wages. This soon spread across the city and 20,000 workers struck. One of.
On March 14, 1895, the Illinois Supreme Court rejected the state's eight hour law for women in Ritchie v. The People of the State of Illinois. It was another in.
One thing the pandemic has done is made people question whether the 5-day work week really makes sense. People had done that before the pandemic too, but like a lot.
Work in modern America really sucks. There are many reasons for this, but one of them is that the old idea of the 40-hour week--long a goal for workers in.
Jeb Bush's hands are far apart to indicate he wants workers to labor all the hours Jeb Bush really is a man of the New Gilded Age. His beliefs about.
I'll admit that what I know about the French economy can be put in a thimble. So I won't comment on the details. But the French economist Michel Husson and.
On April 17, 1905, the Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Melville Fuller, decided the Lochner v. New York case, overturning a New York law limiting the hours bakers could.
