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Workday. Look up workday or work day in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Workday may refer to: Workday, Inc., a cloud-based business applications company. A day in the workweek. Work day, the period of time in a day spent at paid occupational labor. Category: Disambiguation pages.
Andre Romell Young (born February 18, 1965), known professionally as Dr. Dre, is an American record producer and rapper. He is the founder and CEO of Aftermath Entertainment and Beats Electronics, and co-founded and was the president of Death Row Records. Dre began his career as a member of the World Class Wreckin' Cru in 1985, and later found ...
1835 Philadelphia general strike. The 1835 Philadelphia general strike took place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was the first general strike in North America and involved some 20,000 workers who struck for a ten-hour workday and increased wages. The strike ended in workers successfully negotiating for and securing both.
72 miles (116 kilometres) The Washington and Old Dominion Railroad (colloquially referred to as the W&OD and sometimes the "Virginia Creeper") was an intrastate short-line railroad located in Northern Virginia, United States. The railroad was a successor to the bankrupt Washington and Old Dominion Railway and to several earlier railroads, the ...
United Parcel Service, Inc. ( UPS) is an American multinational shipping & receiving and supply chain management company founded in 1907. [1] Originally known as the American Messenger Company specializing in telegraphs, UPS has expanded to become a Fortune 500 company [6] and one of the world's largest shipping couriers.
The eight-hour day was a concession to the workers' and soldiers' soviets, and was unpopular among industrialists. A 12-hour day was reintroduced by a right-wing government during the occupation of the Ruhr and subsequent hyperinflation crisis in 1923. The Labour Ministry eventually shortened wages in the late 1920s.
As of 31 December 2023, the stocks of the Russell 1000 Index had a weighted average market capitalization of $666.0 billion and a median market capitalization of $13.9 billion. As of 8 May 2020, components ranged in market capitalization from $1.8 billion to $1.4 trillion. [1] The index, which was launched on January 1, 1984, is maintained by ...