… soul and a Sabbath, that his hours do not belong finally to the man who signs his check, but just as much or more to the God who made him. The eight-hour workday was the outcome [of the early labor movement]. It was covenant economics. When the industrial reformers worked to end child labor, they appealed to moral liberty. When they fought for workers pensions, they appealed to our moral principles. (09:44–09:47)
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Asserts that the early labor movement led to the establishment of the eight-hour workday.
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