I'm afraid this is a case of when the winners rewrite history. Unfortunately the 40-hour week seems to have been among the last big wins of the US labor moveme

I'm afraid this is a case of when the winners rewrite history. Unfortunately the 40-hour week seems to have been among the last big wins of the US labor movement. Hence the popular (on HN at least) idea that this win was the result of Ford's top-down pioneering.