> As a society, employers were trending towards 40-hr workweeks and weekends. That was already where society was going voluntarily, You write as if this happen

> As a society, employers were trending towards 40-hr workweeks and weekends. That was already where society was going voluntarily, You write as if this happened on its own, 'voluntarily', by 'society' as a whole, when in fact it was driven mainly by one part of society - workers: > "Demands for the five-day week began to proliferate in 1919, a year in which 4 million American workers went out on strike," said Priscilla Murolo, a professor of history at Sarah Lawrence College. "That was about 20 percent of the industrial labor force."