eight-hour-a-day

Updated: May 26, 2025

By writing a book and having my publisher distribute through the bookstores a book, I would reach, at best, only one hundred thousand people, and I am proposing to reach a hundred million people to organize a hundred thousand salesmen scattered in five thousand cities and reach with my book, the hearts and minds, the daily eight-hour-a-day working lives of a hundred million people.

Gerald Stanley Lee - The Ghost in the White House : Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can make themselves felt with a president, how they can back him up, express themselves to him, be expressed by him, and get what they want

And the mention of a compulsory period of labour service for everyone a year or so with the pickaxe as well as with the rifle leads me to another idea that I believe will stand the test of unlimited criticism, and that is a total condemnation of all these eight-hour-a-day, early-closing, guaranteed-weekly-half-holiday notions that are now so prevalent in Liberal circles.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - An Englishman Looks at the World

Why, it would be just heavenly for us. "I must think about it," said the over-urged woman. "If I could get work in a store downtown I would have more regular hours perhaps. For a home cannot be kept on an eight-hour-a-day schedule." But Janice hoped. To do something to bring about peace and comfort for daddy and herself had been her determination for weeks. If only Mrs.

Helen Beecher Long - Janice Day the Young Homemaker