Eleanor [Marx] was involved in the 1889 Paris congress resolution that established May Day as an annual demonstration of the international solidarity of labour in the demand for a legal eight-hour day.

The goal of the first International May Day celebrations was the eight-hour working day.

We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary.

People don't give up power and privilege out of the goodness of their hearts.

Eleanor [Marx] was involved in the 1889 Paris congress resolution that established May Day as an annual demonstration of the international solidarity of labour in the demand for a legal eight-hour day.

Eleanor Marx was a pragmatic person of actions and deeds and she was an organizer.

A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always bang up against history.