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The eight-hour workday is one of the fruits of the struggles of labor unions before Ford Motors even got started. To then turn around and assign its introducti
by wavefunction 12y ago
The eight-hour workday is one of the fruits of the struggles of labor unions before Ford Motors even got started. To then turn around and assign its introduction to a capitalist is ridiculous on its face but the sort of pro-corporate propaganda that is all too common in US culture.
- akgerber 12y agoCapitalists love the 8-hour day, and would never murder children over it! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_View_Massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_View_Massacre
- ashark 12y agoJudging from the rest of the article, which argues for more time off because it'll make workers more productive, it seems to be aimed precisely at capitalists. In that context some ego-stroking historical revisionism shouldn't be surprising. If it's in service of bringing about better worker rights in the US it's... I dunno, justified, I guess? Ends, means, and all that. Still gross.