8-hour day

Content about workers' struggles for a maximum 8-hour working day.

Chile workers 8 hours demonstration, 1913

Bay View Massacre memorial ceremony

1886: The Bay View Massacre

The little known history of the massacre that occurred in Milwaukee, when 7,000 building workers and 5,000 Polish workers demanded the eight-hour…

1915-1920: Red Clydeside and the shop stewards' movement

An account of the powerful workers' movement in Scotland and the strike of 100,000 for a 40-hour…

Contemporary illustration of the Haymarket bomb

A short history of May Day

The history of the world holiday on the 1st May - May Day, or International Workers Day, held in commemoration of four anarchists executed for…

Strikers in Barcelona, 14 February 1919

La Canadiense and Barcelona general strike, 1919 - Sam Lowry

A short history of the Barcelona general strike of 1919 which began after the sacking of eight…

Tanks and soldiers in Glasgow, Feb 1919

1919: The 40-hours strike

The 40 Hours strike led by the Clyde Workers' Committee was the most radical strike seen on Clydeside in terms of both its tactics and its…

Renault workers on strike, 1936

1936-1938: The Workers of the Paris Region During the Popular Front - Michael Seidman

A study of the mass strike and militant working class movement which erupted during the period of…

Parsons on the 8 hour Day

Albert R. Parsons, Haymarket Martyr and anarchist on the movement for an eight-hour working day in March, 1886.