Robert Owen, a utopian socialist, was the first to propose an eight-hour working day in August 1817. In 1866, the Geneva Congress of the First International put forth the slogan “Eight hours for work, eight for rest, eight for what we will” and demanded all the civilized countries to enact laws to recognize it…
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