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by morcutt 2545 days ago
It is absolutely time to modernize here. The 40 hour work week dates back to the industrial revolution.
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ghaff 2545 days ago
A little bit later. It was a demand of various labor movements starting in about the mid-1800s (essentially in response to the industrial revolution) and started to be broadly implemented around the turn of the century.
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GordonS 2544 days ago
I would have thought working hours were much higher back then?
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