Re:“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts t...
by nickff on Friday April 30, 2021 @08:45PM
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Ford was not unionized when they moved to the 40-hour work week, and the textile mills weren't unionized when they eliminated child labor.
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Re:“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts t...
by joshuamorton on Friday April 30, 2021 @08:57PM
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No, but movements for minimum age limits in industry began in unions in the mid 1800s, and the Democratic party adopting a pro-minimum-age law stance was due to pressure from Unions.
Similarly, the push for 8 hour workdays began with union support in the mid 1800s, 50+ years before Ford popularized it (and in fact it was due to this pressure that public sector employees had 8-hour workdays as early as 1869).
Individual states had banned child labor and passed 8-hour workday laws (due to union and public pressure) far before Ford or the Textile mills did so "voluntarily".