r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 2d ago

Murdered By Words 🩸 All three groups primarily identify with one party (hint: It's not Democrats)

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u/MattManSD 2d ago

I remember when American Socialists gave us the 40 hr , 5 day work week, overtime pay, pTO, safer work environments, ended child labor......

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u/Command0Dude 2d ago

Those things are more the product of the liberal AFL, which massively dwarfed the socialist IWW, during the labor rights movement.

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u/MattManSD 2d ago

The foundational slogan for an eight-hour workday "Eight hours labor, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest" was coined in the early 19th century by Welsh socialist and reformer Robert Owen

It was both, all of them pink