Our 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. Beginning with a picture of working hours in colonial
America and the early republic, Roediger and Foner then analyze the
ideology of the movement for a ten-hour workday in the early
nineteenth century. They demonstrate that the ten-hour issue was a
key to the dynamism of the Jacksonian labor movement as well as to
the unity of male artisans and female factory workers in the 1840s.
The authors proceed to examine the subsequent demands for an
eight-hour day, which helped to produce the mass labor struggles of
the late nineteenth century and established the American Federation
of Labor as the dominant force in American trade unionism. Chapters
on labor movement defeats following World War I, on the depression
years, and on the lack of progress over the last half-century
complete the study. Our Own Time will be an ideal supplemental text
for courses in U.S. labor and economic history.
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