The Bay View massacre (sometimes also referred to as the Bay View Tragedy) was the result of a strike held on May 4, 1886, by 7,000 building-trades workers and 5,000 Polish laborers who had organized at St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to strike against their employers, demanding the enforcement of an eight-hour work day.[1] A few days earlier, on May 1, a peaceful demonstration had been held in nearby Chicago, with similar demands.
Just because some companies supported it (like ford so people had more time to use cars and spend money) or some religions allowed it to support their practices, doesn’t mean it wasn’t a “crazy leftist idea” by today’s standards.
You just read “leftist” and couldn’t help adding your own narrative.
The present-day concept of the relatively longer ‘week-end’ first arose in the industrial north of Britain in the early 19th century[4] and was originally a voluntary arrangement between factory owners and workers allowing Saturday afternoon off starting at 2 pm on the basis that staff would be available for work sober and refreshed on Monday morning.[10] The Oxford English Dictionary traces the first use of the term weekend to the British magazine Notes and Queries in 1879.[
Nobody is talking about the origin of the weekend. You posted it was some arrangement between owners and workers at a factory. Thanks?
I’m saying it was considered a leftist, liberal idea by all the other factory owners, which led to some having to die to get it. Is it that hard to follow?
Duh, it’s been leftist, since “left” is defined as being progressive and right as being conservative.
To me “someone’s idea” implies its origin, so that was the only thing worth talking about in that context since a change hardly can be a conservative idea.
No.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workweek_and_weekend#History
Lmao “No”. How about, yes?
Just because some companies supported it (like ford so people had more time to use cars and spend money) or some religions allowed it to support their practices, doesn’t mean it wasn’t a “crazy leftist idea” by today’s standards.
You just read “leftist” and couldn’t help adding your own narrative.
Well… That’s not the origin of the weekend:
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Nobody is talking about the origin of the weekend. You posted it was some arrangement between owners and workers at a factory. Thanks?
I’m saying it was considered a leftist, liberal idea by all the other factory owners, which led to some having to die to get it. Is it that hard to follow?
in a thread specifically about the origin of the weekend
The origin of a 5 day work week and 8 hour shift*
Duh, it’s been leftist, since “left” is defined as being progressive and right as being conservative.
To me “someone’s idea” implies its origin, so that was the only thing worth talking about in that context since a change hardly can be a conservative idea.
You just read “no” and then do whatever?
That is one of the events in a longer history.