When Wives Get an 8-Hour Day

A four-panel Sunday comic by A. D. Condo responds to labor reform debates of the Progressive Era. The strip contrasts a husband's question about his sick child with his wife's discovery of household tasks—then shifts to the wife's fantasy: she imagines voting for Roosevelt while her exhausted husband manages cooking, cleaning, and childcare. The comic employs the visual conventions established by newspaper comics: sequential panels with speech balloons, expressive caricature, and recurring domestic characters. Condo uses the format to comment on gender, work, and political reform, reflecting contemporary arguments about whether eight-hour workdays should extend beyond factory floors to housewives managing unpaid domestic labor.