Factory Workers In Henry Ford's Factory

Working conditions for industrial laborers during the late 19th century were horrible. Factory workers were forced to face long hours, very low wages, no job security, and very poor conditions and no government regulation. On top of the poor conditions because of the low wages many families needed their children to work in order to help the family out. Companies would take advantage of this and hire children at even lower wages and would force them into very dangerous situations because of their size. Factory workers eventually started to form unions to try achieve fair conditions and wages for their work. In 1886 the American federation of labor (AFL) union was formed for skilled laborers and not open to women, immigrants, or blacks by Samuel

Even though the eight-hour day movement were widespreading, there was only a minority of workers initially won the Eight-Hour Day. Overtime working had caused stress on the workers as male death had a large increasing throughout 1890 to 1914 from being over tired.

While industrialization increased the amount and variety of manufactured goods and improved the quality of life for some, the social impact resulted in poor working and living conditions for the working classes and lead to higher divorce rates.

Working 8 hour shifts should be kept as the norm. The economic cost of six-hour work days is prohibitive. Either workers or employers will be forced to end up paying for it. If it's the workers, then they'll lose two hours of wages each day, and that's about a quarter of their pay. Even though productivity increased with six-hour workdays, so did sickness.

A six hour work day should not become the standard work day in the United States. Paste generations of people were forced to work 11 to 12 hours per day like the first article says. This proves that as human beings we are well capable of perfoming tasks for much longer periods of time than six hours.

Productivity, stress and family time are all some things people worry about in their day to day lives. I believe six hour work days can relieve stress, can make people more productive and can even give workers more time with family.

My position on the issue of hours worked per day is it should become standard in the United states. An 8 hour work day is usually more dreadful. As is a 6 hour day is more leanient. A shorter work day will be less stressful and will make it more easy to stay on task.

Six hour days will never work. Just like in the second article paragraph one it says six hour days were proven to not work in two places it was used in. In my opinion an extra two hours isnt that bad and it was proven to work by Henry Ford. In article paragraph 1 Henry Ford's profit doubled with eight hour shifts. Also with six hour days you lose a quarter of your pay. Not many people can live off of that unless pay went way up to cover for the time loss, but if that were to happen then buisnesses would lose money because they would have to pay more people to work all the shifts instead of a few people to work eight hours. All and all eight hours isnt that bad. It would have to be way worse for them to change to six hour work days. Even if

I must say it would be nice to only have have to work a six hour shift daily, however i have to agree with the fact that logically and finicially it would put a massive strain on us as workers. I mean what if doctors and nurses only work six-hour days, they would run out of staff. Sure, it would have its benefactors but I believe it would pose more risks then manageable. Workers would loose too much on a weekly basis both in money and benefits; most of us in America already live below the average medium to make less would diminishing our lives even more. Not only would workers have less money but they could loose all benefits for them and their family members including health coverage. Then employers add the pressure and intensity to be as productive day to day

Ford, the name almost every person in America associates with the successful car industry. However, not everyone understands how Henry Ford made the world wide business as we see it today. Nearly a century ago Henry Ford and his son Edsel procured blazing success for the Ford car industry from 1920 to 1924, to end up re-nurturing the flickering flame from 1925 to 1929, while also benefiting and promoting other industries of the time.

This project gives students the idea of what it is like to be apart of the real world, it stresses you out, and makes you think to yourself ¨would it be okay if I just ate only leftovers?¨ This project is the Henry Ford project, it is a real life scenario where you are working for Henry Ford making $15 dollar an hour. What you have to do is buy all the necessities for living in today’s economy. But, it’s not just you, you also have a certain amount of kids that you also have to take care of, making the challenge a bit more rigorous.

Another reasons I think eight hour shifts are that if you dont work an eight hour shift you are not getting that quarter of your pay eight hour workers get. It would be harder for you to get your work hour changed due to

it states that after they had a 17 minute break after only working 90 to 120 minutes the had the highest productivity in the company. yes employers might like that but employees dont. thats less cash for them that they could be using for food for their family or their bills but getting their hours cut like that is gonna force them to find a better job and quit, which will hurt the employer more. It also states that a British boarding school changed the time they started class from 8:30 a.m. to 10 O'clock, and because they did this all of the students grades and test scores rose. That's the thing, schooling and working are completely different. school you learn something new everyday so it's way easier to learn something new when you have good sleep and only have to go six hours makes it easier to learn and understand. With working its the same thing everyday. Eventually, your brain learns it so well you can do it without thinking for 80 percent of jobs. Having your brain learn it so well also makes you way faster at it so, eventually you are doing it as fast as a six hour shift person and you make more because you have two more hours so your boss will be happy and on top of it all you get two more hours of pay for your

Throughout this essay, I will discuss Henry Ford 's life: the bright and the down sizes. Even if, he was one of the most successful entrepreneurs of all time, he received many critics: lot of people believed that Henry Ford was too controversial and this had truly affected Ford and his company.

In my own opinion, I think that a six hour work day is plenty. When you get off work you will still have enough time to do other things, and you will also have your days off like usual. Me personally, I think that if you have to work more than eight hours a day, then you should get paid more. Henery Ford changed the workday to eight hours on his assembly line, and he also doubled the workers' pay. Suprisingly, a six hour worday is likely to be more productive than an eight hour day (as stated on the first article).