“The US steel industry enforced a twelve-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week schedule until 1923. During a 1912 millworkers strike for shorter work hours in Lawrence, Massachusetts, the mostly women workers sang ‘Yes, it is bread we fight for. But we fight for roses, too.'”
–Â Overwhelmed by Brigid Schulte
Kind of makes that 500-word blog post I need to write seem a bit less daunting.