The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 86
The Need for a Shorter Day
The Need for a Shorter Day.
This power and opportunity to enjoy the civilisation which labor creates is now denied to the great mass of the workers. In page 4 many industries, practically the whole of their waking life is taken up in the mere struggle to live. Many thousands of them never see their little children out of bed. Nearly all of them are worked too long for physical health.
Here are some cases of the hours of labor now being worked in Great Britain.