Results of the introduction of the 8-hour working day in France

At the International Labour Conference the French delegate, Minister of Labour Godard, declared that the attempt to introduce an 8-hour working day had given the best results in France: it had greatly improved the family life of the worker, had increased over 5 years by 45 percent the number of workers' gardens, and had markedly reduced drunkenness among workers. As for the productivity of labour, here too the 8-hour day had given only a plus, not a minus.