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Friday, May 08, 2009

Massachusetts became first state to set 10-hour workday for women

On May 8, 1874, Massachusetts became the first US state to mandate a ten-hour-a-day work limit for women.

Women canning peaches, 1870; Harper's Magazine

Learn more about the Ten Hour Movement.


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