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 the key moments of the Gilded Age that the courts came down sharply on the...
working hours
The thing about set work hours is that they create a stop to employers demanding work from you. The problem is that the entire idea of the eight hour day.
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 the past--has been eroded to the point of meaningless, with all sorts of ways for...
On March 31, 1840, Martin Van Buren issued an executive order granting the 10-hour day on federal projects. This early critical moment in the fight for a dignified work day.
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 Stephanie Treillet have a provocative Jacobin essay on the connection between reducing the work week...
The plague of unpredictable work schedules, with employers changing workers' weekly schedules as their whim, must end. It causes all sorts of problems for those workers. A few examples from.
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.