[black spacer] "They say a day has 24 hours. That's a bluff. A day has 12 coats. . . . I have still two coats to make of the 12 that I got yesterday. So it's still Monday, with me. My Tuesday won't begin before about two o'clock this afternoon."

- From A Sweatshop Romance by Abraham Cahan, 1898


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