Six-Hour Work Experiences During The Industrial Revolution Factory Workers

A six hour work day is plenty.

I agree with the writer that 6 hour work day is plenty.

1:During the industrial revolution factory workers used to work 11 to 12 hour per day and six days , six days per week.

2: Evidence showned that in 1914, Henry fordchanged the workday to eight hours on his assembly line, he double workers pay. production of ford employee increased so much that ford found his own profits double within two years.

3:One corporation studied productivity by tracking thier employees at work. They found the top ten percent of employees took a seventeen minute break for every fifty two minutes they worked. these employees did not even worked full eight hour workdays , yet they had the highest productivity in the company.

These are the 3 major reason why i agree 100% with the article that six-hour workday is plenty.

As a child growing up in my homeland Before all the coroption took place in the goverment people were working 6 hour days and was able to provide for their family, quality of life was better. As a family my mother was able to stay home and take care of us while my father go to work, and my father was able to pay for our education,food, and able to take the family on vacations with no problem. Because of the shorter hour of workday we were able to see my father at a good time before bed time and also we had the priviledge to have dinner as a family all together at the table each and every day. As things changed the government become very coropted, My father had to move us to the UNITED STATE for a better life. We came straight to Boston from my homeland, as we started to settle down and get a feeling of the new move we realize things are very different here in the U.S people worked longer hour day there are barely anytime for family gathering etc. Now that my father had to work longer hours he was not able to support his family as he used to, to the point where we all the sibling and my mother had to find jobs to support my father with the bills and even to support ourself, buy paying to go to school,transportation etc where life become very stressful we had to learn a different way of living compare to how we used to live back

home.

Although the oponent of the six-hour workday argues that shorter hour workday did not work in france and sweden, and that they found the six hour workday was bad for worker due to more people that were getting six. The fact is that evidence prove that working longer hour workday increase stress and stress cause multiple type of disease such as diabetes,heart problem,obesity etc. Also study showned that the U.S has the most obesity,diabetes,heart issues etc,and healthcare cost is sky high due to all these issues. Other study also found people are more healthy and happier and country such as france,denmark,australia because they work shorter hour workday and have more vacation more time to spend with family and friends, compare to the U.S.

I believe as a people if we all come together as true American not with political partisanship but as human, we can solve these problems in the country, and make the countrey even greater than before and then it is now. There will desagreements, but compromising is possible, i believe that day is coming.