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Violence didn’t bring us the weekend. The arch-capitalist Henry Ford created the precedent for the weekend because he wanted people to have leisure time to be

• ceejayoz 1y ago
  > Violence didn’t bring us the weekend. Violence definitely happened in the US labor movement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Coalfield_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Coalfield_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_strike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_strike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Overpass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Overpass Ford hardly invented the weekend, either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workweek_and_weekend#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workweek_and_weekend#History "The present-day concept of the relatively longer "week-end" first arose in the industrial north of Britain in the early 19th century... In 1884, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions, a predecessor of today’s AFL-CIO, called for all workers to have eight-hour days by May 1, 1886, playing a crucial role in the push for a five-day workweek."
• EnergyAmy 1y ago
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