Haymarket Riot

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Haymarket Riot
https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844551.book-part-007

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Abstract

In the 1880s trade unionists began fighting for the present symbol of the American working class: the eight-hour workday. The Knights of Labor instigated this effort in the decade following the Civil War, but many other unions joined the cause. Still, it would not be until 1886 that this stand for the eight-hour workday changed the course of the labor movement for the rest of the nineteenth century.

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