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C1 Hours of Work (Industry) Convention, 1919 Convention Limiting the Hours of Work in Industrial Undertakings to Eight in the Day and Forty-eight in the Week (Note: Date of coming into force: 13:06:1921.) Convention:C001 Place:Washington Session of the Conference:1 Date of adoption:28:11:1919 Subject classification: Hours of Work Subject: Working Time See the ratifications for this ConventionDisplay the document in: French SpanishStatus: Instrument subject to a request for information. The General Conference of the International Labour Organisation, Having been convened at Washington by the Government of the United States of America on the 29 th day of October 1919, and Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to the "application of the principle of the 8-hours day or of the 48-hours week", which is the first item in the agenda for the Washington meeting of the Conference, and Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of an international Convention, adopts the following Convention, which may be cited as the Hours of Work (Industry) Convention, 1919, for ratification by the Members of the International Labour Organisation, in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation: Article 1 1. For the purpose of this Convention, the term industrial undertaking includes particularly-- (a) mines, quarries, and other works for the extraction of minerals from the earth; (b) industries in which articles are manufactured, altered, cleaned, repaired, ornamented, finished, adapted for sale, broken up or demolished, or in which materials are transformed; including shipbuilding and the generation, transformation, and transmission of electricity or motive power of any kind; (c) construction, reconstruction, maintenance, repair, alteration, or demolition of any building, railway, tramway, harbour, dock, pier, canal, inland waterway, road, tunnel, bridge, viaduct, sewer, drain, well, telegraphic or