Red-years workers won the standardized eight-hour workday in Italy and Britain

Evidence

During the red years, Italian and British workers fought for, and secured, a standardization of the eighthour workday. L’Avanti hailed the event triumphantly as “a conquest without precedent … an unheard victory in the history of the world proletarian movement” (L’Avanti, February 21, 1919, 2, Milan edition). — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 359

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Italy’s labor mobilization during the red biennium far exceeded other countries — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 1665

Broader Connections

• Italy’s labor mobilization during the red biennium far exceeded other countries #qualifies (0.75) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 1665