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eight-hour day

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eight-hour day: see labor law labor law, legislation dealing with human beings in their capacity as workers or wage earners. The Industrial Revolution, by introducing the machine and factory production, greatly expanded the class of workers dependent on wages as their source of income.
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Two men can clear about one acre in an eight-hour day with two machines, Tom says.
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