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I mean... they kinda _were_

• fastball 8y ago
  Henry Ford invented the 40 hour work week. Without Unions.
  • matthewowen 8y ago
    No, he didn't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Owen#Eight-hour_day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Owen#Eight-hour_day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-hour_day#United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-hour_day#United_States
  • bobwaycott 8y ago
    Where did you get that idea? That is so very far from true about either Ford or the 40-hour-week. Are you of the opinion that more than a century of labor fighting for reasonable working hours and conditions meant nothing, or are you just wanting to give Ford all the credit, despite him drawing on decades of increased movement toward an 8-hour workday before he ever decided to try it as a company policy?