I have trouble working even 8 hours a day
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2it's incredible that the 8-hour workday was really a compromise with labor activists and people worked 10+ hours before that
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> 8-hour workday was really a compromise with labor activists
Nah. 8hr workday was Henry Ford's doing, partly to attract better talent, and partly to appease his wife. Labour activists had been getting murdered for over a century for campaigning for 8hr work day before that (eg. Haymarket massacre / International Worker's day).
> 8-hour workday was really a compromise with labor activists
Nah. 8hr workday was Henry Ford's doing, partly to attract better talent, and partly to appease his wife. Labour activists had been getting murdered for over a century for campaigning for 8hr work day before that (eg. Haymarket massacre / International Worker's day).
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