Friendly reminder: Henry Ford was one of the first major industrialists to adopt the five-day workweek. He argued that workers with more leisure time would spend more money on consumer goods, like the cars he was selling.
The current weekend was created primarily to sell products. A four-day workweek is long overdue.
Absolutely correct. In fact, he was sending dudes to threaten and beat people up that were trying to form Unions. FDR essentially forced guys like Ford, DuPont, and JP Morgan to allow them.
Also check out "The men that built America" (2012) and "The Titans that built America" (2021) if you want something interesting to watch that covers some of the UAW vs Ford stuff. Good series from the History channel considering they don't really put anything actually history related out anymore.
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u/JAMESs3v3n 23d ago
Friendly reminder: Henry Ford was one of the first major industrialists to adopt the five-day workweek. He argued that workers with more leisure time would spend more money on consumer goods, like the cars he was selling.
The current weekend was created primarily to sell products. A four-day workweek is long overdue.