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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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Eight-Hour Day

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Each of Australia's states celebrates the improvements that have been made in working conditions with its own Labor Day. The Eight-Hour Day holiday is marked with parades and celebrations to commemorate trade union efforts to limit working hours. In many places, people still chant the unions' slogan: "Eight hours' labor, eight hours' recreation, and eight hours' rest!," which, by happenstance, is the basis of St. Benedict's Rule of Life for religious orders.
In Queensland Labour Day is celebrated on the first Monday in May; in New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, and South Australia it's the first Monday in October; in Western Australia it's the first Monday in March; and in Tasmania and Victoria it's the second Monday in March. In New Zealand, Labour Day is observed on the first Monday in October.

CONTACTS:
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
P.O. Box 5364
Wellington, New Zealand
64-4-471-4027; fax: 61-4-499-4490
www.nzhistory.net.nz

SOURCES:
AnnivHol-2000, pp. 54, 91, 180
BkHolWrld-1986, Mar 5
DictDays-1988, pp. 36, 65

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Players are going from school to academies to full-time cricket contracts without ever knowing what it is like to work an eight-hour day as a teenager and be paid 14 dollars an hour.

CA struggles to handle Oz players when their lives are spinning out ... by Asian News International

Historically, Labour Day Parade in Toronto in the early 1900s---The celebration of Labour Day has its origins in the eight-hour day movement, which advocated eight hours for work, eight hours for recreation, and eight hours for rest.

Labour Day, An Inspriation to Live Unitedly in Recession Time by Sandeep Datta / Automotive community

The win was greeted with a roar that echoed up the Wye Valley because the gelding is owned by one of the most popular figures in point-to-pointing in Wales, 90-year-old Edna Hussey, who still works an eight-hour day on her smallholding near Usk.

Bob Bites Back makes waves for Edna by The Racing Post (London, England)

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