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The six-hour day is a schedule by which the employees or other members of an institution (which may also be, for example, a school) spend six hours contributing. This is in contrast to the widespread eight-hour day , or any other time arrangement.
Kellogg's Six-Hour Day is a 1996 book by Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt on the implementation and effects of a reduced work week policy at Kellogg's. References [ edit ]
Six-hour day, proposed as an alternative to a four-day week Eight-hour day movement , a former social movement to regulate the length of a working day. The eight-hour day was first introduced by law in Spain in 1919 and later the same year ratified by 52 countries at the Hours of Work (Industry) Convention, 1919 .
By June 8, the Eight Hour League would have 21,000 dues paying members, and by the end of that month over 100,000 workers had participated in the city's general strike for an eight-hour day. [6] At first, the strike won several trades within the city the eight hour workday, including: bricklayers, carpenters, plasterers, painters, plumbers ...
Hours of Work (Industry) Convention, 1919 is an International Labour Organization Convention. It was established in 1919: Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to the "application of the principle of the 8-hour working day or of the 48-hours week"...
The official government working week is Monday to Friday; 8 hours per day, except Friday which is 7 hours, and 39 hours in total per week. Official work hours run from 08:30 am to 05:30pm with one hour for lunch from 12:30pm to 01:30pm. On Friday, lunch hour runs from 2:00 pm to 6:00 to allow Muslims to attend Friday prayers.
Committee of Fifty, a group of prominent trade unionists in New York City, organized to resist efforts by business owners to revoke the 10-hour workday and reinstate the 11-hour workday. [5] Their efforts lead directly to the forming of the Workingmen's Party of New York. [5] 1829 (United States) Workingmen's Party of New York formed. [1] [5]
During the 1820s and 1830s, a number of strikes were commenced to shorten the work day. In June 1827 some 600 Philadelphia journeymen carpenters—that is, the wage laborers employed by master carpenters—went on strike for the citywide establishment of the ten-hour day. [3]