From the Eight-Hour Day to the Four-Day Week

Name: From the Eight-Hour Day to the Four-Day Week
Start: 2025-12-03T18:00:00+11:00
End: 2025-12-03T19:00:00+11:00
Location: Sydney Trades Hall, Lorna Morrison Banner Room

Sean Scalmer

Highlights

Wed, 03 Dec, 2025 at 06:00 pm

1 hour

Sydney Trades Hall, Lorna Morrison Banner Room

Free Tickets Available

Date & Location

Wed, 03 Dec, 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm (GMT+11:00)

Sydney Trades Hall, Lorna Morrison Banner Room

4 Goulburn Street, Sydney, Australia

About the event

From the Eight-Hour Day to the Four-Day Week

A book launch and discussion on the struggle over working time in Australia.

About this Event

An event to discuss the history of struggles over working time and to contemplate their relevance to present and future campaigns. It will include the launch of a new book by Sean Scalmer, A Fair Day's Work: The Quest To Win Back Time (Melbourne University Press, 2025), but also use the book as a springboard to discuss contemporary struggles.

Speakers:

Steve Murphy (National Secretary, Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union)

Izabella Nantsou (Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre)

Sean Scalmer (author and Professor of History, University of Melbourne)

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