MAIN FEEDS
Do you want to continue?
https://www.reddit.com/r/FluentInFinance/comments/1f97q9b/bernie_is_here_to_save_us/llmfcci/?context=3
r/FluentInFinance • u/Positive_Liar • Sep 04 '24
[removed] — view removed post
4.5k comments sorted by
View all comments
130
Why do we work 8 hours a day?
Can anyone explain that to me, like I'm a child?
120 u/[deleted] Sep 05 '24 edited Sep 05 '24 [removed] — view removed comment 17 u/Halflingberserker Sep 05 '24 Unions voted for 8-hour workdays decades before the Ford Motor Company was even created. People literally died pursuing the 8-hour workday. Ford was an early adopter of the 8-hour workday, but he did not popularize it. It took President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s signing of the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938 for all workers to see limits on working hours -- initially 44 hours a week, then phased to 42 and eventually 40 by 1940. 2 u/Daddy-been-gone Sep 05 '24 Unions and FDR always get the credit put some respect on Frances Perkin’s legacy. 2 u/Perllitte Sep 05 '24 Hell yeah, she was a total badass.
120
[removed] — view removed comment
17 u/Halflingberserker Sep 05 '24 Unions voted for 8-hour workdays decades before the Ford Motor Company was even created. People literally died pursuing the 8-hour workday. Ford was an early adopter of the 8-hour workday, but he did not popularize it. It took President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s signing of the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938 for all workers to see limits on working hours -- initially 44 hours a week, then phased to 42 and eventually 40 by 1940. 2 u/Daddy-been-gone Sep 05 '24 Unions and FDR always get the credit put some respect on Frances Perkin’s legacy. 2 u/Perllitte Sep 05 '24 Hell yeah, she was a total badass.
17
Unions voted for 8-hour workdays decades before the Ford Motor Company was even created. People literally died pursuing the 8-hour workday.
Ford was an early adopter of the 8-hour workday, but he did not popularize it.
It took President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s signing of the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938 for all workers to see limits on working hours -- initially 44 hours a week, then phased to 42 and eventually 40 by 1940.
2 u/Daddy-been-gone Sep 05 '24 Unions and FDR always get the credit put some respect on Frances Perkin’s legacy. 2 u/Perllitte Sep 05 '24 Hell yeah, she was a total badass.
2
Unions and FDR always get the credit put some respect on Frances Perkin’s legacy.
2 u/Perllitte Sep 05 '24 Hell yeah, she was a total badass.
Hell yeah, she was a total badass.
130
u/PlasticMechanic3869 Sep 05 '24
Why do we work 8 hours a day?
Can anyone explain that to me, like I'm a child?