{"id":3014,"date":"2008-08-20T10:14:27","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T17:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=3014"},"modified":"2008-08-26T12:31:54","modified_gmt":"2008-08-26T19:31:54","slug":"subversive-historian-082008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2008\/08\/20\/subversive-historian-082008\/","title":{"rendered":"Subversive Historian &#8211; 08\/20\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> Listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest_08_20_08\/2008_08_20_sh.mp3\"> today&#8217;s Subversive Historian <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drooker.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=right src=\"\/home\/graphics\/Censorship.jpg\" alt=\"Eric Drooker\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong> The Eight Hour Work Day by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One-hundred and forty-two years ago on this day in people\u2019s history, the newly formed National Labor Union called on Congress to mandate an eight-hour workday. On August 20th, 1866, the NLU failed to sway lawmakers, but took an important step nonetheless in pressuring for this important labor reform. The union organized \u201ceight-hour leagues\u201d and passed a resolution calling the reform \u201cthe first and great necessity of the present to free labor of this country from capitalist slavery.\u201d Congress did eventually pass an eight-hour work day reform for federal employees two years later, but reduced wages accompanied reduced hours in many cases. It wasn\u2019t until 1938 that the NLU\u2019s vision was realized under the New Deal.<\/p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;re reading this at work, celebrate the eight-hour day by staying out on lunch break twice as long as you&#8217;re supposed to!<\/p>\n<p><em>Clocking out for Uprising, this is your truth professa saying it&#8217;s no mystery why they conceal our history!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to today&#8217;s Subversive Historian The Eight Hour Work Day by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman One-hundred and forty-two years ago on this day in people\u2019s history, the newly formed National Labor Union called on Congress to mandate an eight-hour workday. On August 20th, 1866, the NLU failed to sway lawmakers, but took an important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-subversive-historian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}