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Print. How to Live on Twenty-four Hours a Day is a short self-help book "about the daily organization of time" [1] by novelist Arnold Bennett. Written originally as a series of articles in the London Evening News in 1907, it was published in book form in 1908. Aimed initially at "the legions of clerks and typists and other meanly paid workers ...
The eight-hour day was the first topic discussed by the International Labour Organization which resulted in the Hours of Work (Industry) Convention, 1919 ratified by 52 countries as of 2016. The eight-hour day movement forms part of the early history for the celebration of May Day, and Labour Day in some countries.
The Hours. The Hours, a 1998 novel by Michael Cunningham, is a tribute to Virginia Woolf 's 1923 work Mrs. Dalloway; Cunningham emulates elements of Woolf's writing style while revisiting some of her themes within different settings. The Hours won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 1999 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was later ...
0-451-52310-5. OCLC. 29526909. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Russian: Один день Ивана Денисовича, romanized: Odin den' Ivana Denisovicha, IPA: [ɐˈdʲin ˈdʲenʲ ɪˈvanə dʲɪˈnʲisəvʲɪtɕə]) is a short novel by the Russian writer and Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first published in November ...
In October 1884, a convention held by the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions unanimously set May 1, 1886, as the date by which the eight-hour work day would become standard, declaring that they resolved that "eight hours shall constitute a legal day's labor, from and after May 1, 1886, and that we recommend to labor organizations ...
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Factories Act 1847. An Act to limit the Hours of Labour of young Persons and Females in Factories. The Factories Act 1847, also known as the Ten Hours Act was a United Kingdom Act of Parliament which restricted the working hours of women and young persons (13–18) in textile mills to 10 hours per day. The practicalities of running a textile ...
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore is a 2012 novel by American writer Robin Sloan.It was chosen as one of the best 100 books of 2012 by the San Francisco Chronicle, [1] was a New York Times Editor's Choice, [2] and was on the New York Times Hardcover Fiction Best Seller list [3] as well as the NPR Hardcover Fiction Bestseller List. [4]