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Striking Union Workers Turned the First Labor Day Into a Networking Event – Smithsonian

“Labor Day came about because workers felt they were spending too many hours and days on the job.

“In the 1830s, manufacturing workers were putting in 70-hour weeks on average. Sixty years later, in 1890, hours of work had dropped, although the average manufacturing worker still toiled in a factory 60 hours a week.”

Hours of Work in U.S. History


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