It's Time For Factory Workers During The Industrial Revolution

I think that the United States could go to the six hour work day. People in the past have done it and it was a huge success. During the Industrial Revolution people had to work 11-12 hours each day with little pay. Later on in the 1900s, Henry Ford changed the work hours for his employees and they showed great amounts of success. Ford doubled their pay and they did the work 2 times faster and more efficiently.

Personally, I believe that there should be changes in employment laws to give Americans more time to relax. That is why it is important to provide a solution to the problem that is affecting the lives of many Americans. The first thing to do to provide more free time to employees is to establish a law that makes it mandatory for employees to not work past 40 hours a week. Another, way to fix the problem is to increase the income of employee workers that way they can work 40 hours a week. That way workers’ productivity can improve while, not having a negative on the workers’ physically and

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

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

A six-hour work day for most people isnt gonna do as much as a eight-hour work day would. They cant make as much money only working six hours out of the day because that wouldnt be enough money to raise a family. Studies have showed that six-hour work days are harder on the body then eight-hour work days because they have a very short ammount of time to get the work they need to get done completed by the end of their shifts. Six-hour work days require the employer to come up with the money to hire more staff to cover the now-empty shifts.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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