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You'd be absolutely livid if you found out how your ancestors earned the right to a weekend and a 40 hour work week.
by ianleeclark 6y ago
You'd be absolutely livid if you found out how your ancestors earned the right to a weekend and a 40 hour work week.
- anonmidniteshpr 6y agoI'm trying to recall an incident (19th or 20th c.) where a mine or a factory hired strikebreaker snipers to climb into towers and shoot down into the strikers.
- mola 6y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_View_Massacre https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_View_Massacre https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thibodaux_massacre https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thibodaux_massacre https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morewood_massacre https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morewood_massacre And the list goes on...
- clarkmoody 6y agoThe only reason we have days off is because of productivity gains due to investment in capital goods. If we can wean ourselves off of a debt-based economy, then we might be able to whittle that workweek down even further. We seem to have stalled right around 1971 when dollar convertibility was suspended.
- ianleeclark 6y agoThe reason you have days off is due to decades of labor agitation. Productivity has continued to climb even after the 70s.
- johnny22 6y agoWhere did you get the idea that is how it happened? That claim is not backed up by history at all.
- mola 6y agoLots of factual claims, no support included. Learn some history.