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Stated this way it makes it sound as if the government, unbidden by anything external, just decided to make this a requirement one day. Of course, this was n
by akira2501 5y ago
Stated this way it makes it sound as if the government, unbidden by anything external, just decided to make this a requirement one day. Of course, this was not the case.
In reality workers, unions and even industry leaders themselves were already pushing for this decades before the government codified it in the Fair Labor Standards Act.
- plankers 5y agoPeople literally died fighting for the 40-hour workweek: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair
- notahacker 5y agoThe reason various entities wanted it codified in law was because regardless of what labour with actual negotiating power and businesses with the ethics and margins to not demand absurdly high workweeks wanted, millions of workers didn't have much choice. When child labour was legal, lots of children worked.