Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working DayOur Own Time provides the first full account of the movement to shorten the working day in the United States. Combining the narrative and trade union emphasis of traditional labor history with the focus on culture and the labor process characteristic of contemporary labor history, the book offers an illuminating reinterpretation of the history of the U.S. labor movement from the colonial period onward. The authors argue that the length of the working day or week historically has been the central issue raised by the American labor movement during its most vigorous periods of organization. |
Contents
Shorter Hours and the Transformation of American Labor | 19 |
Mill Women and the Working Day 18421850 | 43 |
Hours Labor Protest and Party Politics in the 1850s | 65 |
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