Google doodle honours labours and workers with a doodle for Labour Day 2021 | Why is Labour Day celebrated around the world?

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Why is Labour Day celebrated around the world?

What is Labour Day?

  • International Labour Day is observed each year on May 1, to honour the labourer and workers, and to spread awareness about exploitation. 
  • International labour day or May Day celebrates labourers all around the world, and encourages them to be aware of their rights. It is a public holiday in many countries. 

History

  • Earlier, the labours were exploited, as they were made to work for 15 hours a day, and it was in the year 1886, that the workers came together and started raising their voice for their right. 
  • In the protest, they asked for working 8 hours a day, and to be provided with paid leaves.
  • In 1889, socialist groups and trade unions in the US, designated May 1 as a day for workers. 
  • This was in remembrance of the Haymarket Riots, in Chicago in 1886 when a labour protest rally turned violent, after someone threw a bomb at the police.

Haymarket Riots

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  • In 1889, the Marxist International Socialist Congress, adopted a resolution in which they demanded that the workers should not be made to work for more than 8 hours a day. 
  • After this, it became an annual event, and May 1 was celebrated as Labour Day. 
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