An idea from Das Kapital, Volume I

The length of the working day was never settled by the market. Workers fought over it for centuries, one law at a time, and in England won limits such as the 10-hour day. In 1866 a labour congress in Baltimore demanded 8 hours for all of America.

From Das Kapital, Volume I by Karl Marx

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