By the start of the 20th century, the 8-hour workday was becoming a reality for more and more people, and at the end of the First World War, 8-hour laws of varying scope had been enacted across Europe.
到了20世紀初,8小時工作制已經成為一種趨勢,在第一次世界大戰結束時,歐洲各地都頒佈了不同範疇的八小時法。