The eight-hour movement claimed discretionary time as a workers’ right

Evidence

But here I come back to Deleuze’s “right to say nothing,” and just because this right is denied to many people doesn’t make it any less of a right or any less important. As far back as 1886, decades before it would finally be guaranteed, workers in the United States pushed for an eight-hour workday: “eight hours of work, eight hours of rest, and eight hours of what we will.” The famous graphic by the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions shows this motto corresponding to three sections of the day: a textile worker at her station, a sleeping person’s feet sticking out of a blanket, and a couple sitting in a boat on a lake, reading a union newspaper. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 76

Categorization

• XREF: Directly continues the reply to the privilege objection in paragraph 75; foregrounds how Odell preempts the misreading.
• ADDENDUM: Relates to the reader’s purpose of defending Odell against the withdrawal misreading: idle time here is framed as an organized labor demand, not luxury.