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• There was an 11 hour working day with a 10 hour working day on Saturday
• Under a law introduced in 1896, workers were not obliged to work on Sundays
• By 1914 the hours of work had reduced to a 9-10 hour working day and Statutory holidays had been introduced
• The 'brutishness of the working man's life tended to make him difficult and explosive'
• In a survey of 12 thousand St Petersburg workers presented to a Congress of the Struggle Against Alcoholism in 1910, 93% drank heavily
• The workers' insurance system was set up in 1903 which partially offset low pay
• RJW- There were harsh working conditions in military related production