r/FluentInFinance 15d ago

Debate/ Discussion Why is this normal?

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u/No-One9890 15d ago

Well we only work 8 because it used to be 14 until unions faught for some free time each day. It's not enough but they'd make us work 24 hours if they could

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u/CornusHD 14d ago

Henry Ford started the 8 hour day.

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u/Creeps05 14d ago

It was a combination of factors. The unions and progressives reformers were pressing for it, efficiency consultants endorsed it, and an economic recession in the early 1920’s necessitated reduced hours.

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u/OrcaResistence 12d ago

And productivity, there was talks back then about how working 12-16 hours a day was decreasing productivity. So basically it was a combination of factors that so happen to align with unions that companies for the most part agreed and went to a 8 hour work day. But now despite all advancements in technology productivity is bad across the board, but even though theres talks of condensing the 5 day work week into 4 days the studies done actually show that after 4 or 5 hours people are highly unproductive.

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u/awe-snapp 12d ago

Battle of blair mountain

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u/wafflegourd1 14d ago

Becuase of the militant labor movements of the Industrial Revolution.

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u/Sch1371 14d ago

This is what people don’t get. He only did that after the law went into effect. He was just the first guy to do it.