Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) issue of 29.4.2017 edit laments that even trade unions have forgotten May Day now. In 1867, on May 1, in Chicago, four workers died while agitating, in a mass protest, for an 8-hour working day and in its memory 1st of May used to be remembered all over the world as labour day.
Our world has forgotten an 8-hour working day. Every person working in the new economy as also in the informal economy and agriculture will be happy to have one and lead a more balanced life. But how will it come about?
The editorial quotes 1 stanza of the eight-hour song:
We want to feel the sunshine; we want to smell the flowers;
We're sure that God has willed it, and we mean to have eight hours.
We're summoning our forces from shipyard, shop and mill:
Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, and eight hours for what we will.
Our world has forgotten an 8-hour working day. Every person working in the new economy as also in the informal economy and agriculture will be happy to have one and lead a more balanced life. But how will it come about?
The editorial quotes 1 stanza of the eight-hour song:
We want to feel the sunshine; we want to smell the flowers;
We're sure that God has willed it, and we mean to have eight hours.
We're summoning our forces from shipyard, shop and mill:
Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, and eight hours for what we will.
