It's Time For Factory Workers During The Industrial Revolution

Workers went on strike to earn a fair living wage and in 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt stepped in. His commission saw the truth awarded mine workers a wage increase and a nine-hour day. The department of Labor formed to help fix problems of the American worker. New York banned children from working under the age of sixteen for more than nine hours in a factory. To improve safety, in 1911, New York passed laws requiring fire escapes, fire drills and wired windows in all factories. In the next year, New York also passed a law requiring factory workers to have a “one-day-of-rest-in-seven”, meaning they needed to have at least one day break each week. After that, New York also made it illegal to hire children to do factory work in tenements or canneries, and made a fifty four- hour workweek the maximum for any working person under eighteen. (Doc 2)

Studies have shown that people do most of their best thinking in the late morning to the late afternoon. This is true to people that go to work and for people that go to school. A British boarding school decided to start school at 10 in the morning to study the kids and their grades. The school saw an average improvement in

Does Americans work too hard? Does working more actually reduce productivity? This topic has been part of a big debate ever since; workers right has been questioned by the public. Furthermore, the problem with 40 hour work week and limit on how many hours a person can work is part of the debate when concerning with workers’ rights. Additionally, there should be changes in employment laws to give Americans more time to relax. That way workers’ productivity can increase and it will not have a negative effect on workers both physically and mentally.

Work-life balance has been a popular topic for employees across all age and occupations for years, representing a rising concern of contemporary human resource management and labor policies. This topic has attracted the attention from the millennium generation, who is stepping into the market and beginning to grow a career. Therefore considering the increasing demand, well-designed workforce planning with diverse scheduling options offered to employees appears to be extra credits for most companies. This research paper aims to communicate the positive effects of four-day workweek, and providing support for why employers should adopt this schedule for employees and themselves through 1) introducing background and history of four-day workweek as a work schedule option and 2) demonstrating benefits of four-day workweek from both employer and employees’ perspectives.

In the event a six-hour work day was proposed, and should take effect. One would have to take in the consideration of the wages loss in that 2 hour period, as stated in the second paragraph of the section entitled Six-Hour Days Will Never Work. I personally feel this would pose a great problem for the average working class in today's society. The working person already feels compelled to take in

During the American Industrial Revolution beginning in the eighteenth century, laborers typically put in a 10-16 hour workday for very low wages. As manufacturers began to implement more efficient systems, workers were forced to labor long hours. In the summer of 1884, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions called for an eight-hour workday. Interestingly, a law granting federal and Illinois workers an eight-hour workday was established 17 years prior but it was never enforced. Illinois employers forced their workers to sign waivers by passing the law. Soon thereafter, several protests were held, including The Haymarket Affair, on May 4, 1886 in Chicago.

According to the passage, I believe it is important to work six hours a day with the appropiate break time. It will reduce stress and fatigue as well. It is also, healthier for our

The 4 day work week is not a new idea. It is one that has had its share of controversies over the years. Introduced in the 1970’s the idea of the 4 days work week has been making a comeback as of lately. There are several issues to look at here. One of the main statements in regards to it is that productivity will decrease because of fatigue. A 10 hour work day is too long. On the flipside, another of the main issues pointed out by proponents is that productivity will increase because you will have a workforce with higher morale. In this paper, we will discuss

I agree with the article, "Six-Hour Days Will Never Work". In my opinion it will never work because six hours seems to be to short in time to do work. if we continue our 8 hours most people can get done work plus more and have time to get the next shift report. Six hour shift is considered part time hours, that means no full time benefits for insurance or any other sort. Families can often get sick because they can't afford to pay an well visit to the doctors. That can a effect a person's family within the household. Or they wouldn't have enough money in a paycheck to provide their family. Losing two hours a daily can add up when it's time to get your paycheck. For the 8 hours that a person spends at work, they can take (2) 15 mins break

Eight-hour work days are fair because the human body doesn't start to fully function till about four hours after they have woken up. Eight-hour work days also make it to where the employees are making more money and putting less stress on their bodies to where they are not completely exhausted when they get home. People will be able to feed and support there families because they are making twice the amount of money on a eight-hour work day

I think that a six-hour work day should become standard in the United States. As stated in the article most people do their best thinking in the morning and late afternoon. This mean workers will be more willing to help out or even work harder, aslo means they can get a good night sleep. Who doesn't like a good night sleep? There still should be over time, for workers who need a little bit more money.

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

This issue A Six- Hour Workday Is Plenty is strengths to me because a six-hour workday is likely to be more productive than an eight- hour day.Most people do the best thinking in late morning and late afternoon.This is partly due to biologic cycles of energy and motivation.For example , people do not want to be hurry in the morning go to work and drop their kids early at daycare so they can little exercise in the morning, enjoy breakfast together and go to work with a lot of energies instead hurry go to work early. In one stuy, the starting time of British boarding school classes was changed from 8:30 to 10:00 in the

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.

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.