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Posted on 7/21/20 at 11:22 am to sgallo3
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1890s
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how miserable were these people?
I would have been loving life, I would have been out in the territories Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado (newish state), Arizona, New Mexico. There was so much more freedom.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 11:23 am to sgallo3
quote:I know I'll get a ton of downvotes because this is the OT, but you can thank unions for this change.
The average work week in the 1890s was 100 hours
Posted on 7/21/20 at 11:25 am to FearTheFish
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I know I'll get a ton of downvotes because this is the OT, but you can thank unions for this change.
Not from me, I think unions were important, back then. Now, not so much.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 11:25 am to sgallo3
That averages out to over 14 hours a day 7 days a week. I'm skeptical unless it includes household chores. People usually got Sundays off, and sometimes a half day on Saturday.
Farming is a different matter of course.
Farming is a different matter of course.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 11:25 am to sgallo3
They didn't have time for looting and rioting.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 11:27 am to sgallo3
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The average work week in the 1890s was 100 hours
Part of the reason unions were formed. Hope this board remembers that when companies are trying to work everyone like that in the future.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 11:27 am to transcend
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The average work week in the 1890s was 100 hours
That's because cocaine was legal back then.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 11:28 am to kywildcatfanone
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They didn't have time for looting and rioting.
See: Pullman Strike, Haymarket Riot, etc.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 11:31 am to jlovel7
They drank a lot of alcohol. Go to work. Go home. Get plastered till you pass out. Go back to work.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 11:36 am to sgallo3
People married young when they still had free time to meet people, if it wasn't arranged, a d stayed married because they no longer had the free time required to look for a younger model.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 11:46 am to sgallo3
I misread this as the 1980s and was thinking, daaamn those MFers played a LOT of Leisure Suit Larry.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 11:46 am to sgallo3
Sounds like a leisurely week to me. But I'm in my 20's with a bunch of side gigs
Posted on 7/21/20 at 11:47 am to sgallo3
But science tells us it wasn’t as hot then.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 11:48 am to LegendInMyMind
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Yet, now it takes us 2 1/2 years to do a study on how to build a 50 yard long bridge.
There you go. Fixed it.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 11:51 am to GreatLakesTiger24
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People are miserable now because we’re not wired to have so much leisure time
Speak for yourself pal.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 11:52 am to chinese58
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Hope this board remembers that when companies are trying to work everyone like that in the future.
Companies are trying to eliminate human labor altogether. We're obsolete when it comes to efficiency and production.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 11:53 am to redstick13
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averaged 100 hours per week when I was a roustabout offshore on a jack-up rig. There was nothing easy about that job. Or safe for that matter.
I average 98. But I’ve been out here 21 years. I actually work maybe 2-6 hrs a day!
Posted on 7/21/20 at 11:55 am to sgallo3
they probably spent half their time posting on the OT
Posted on 7/21/20 at 11:55 am to sgallo3
Seems like any descendents of those workers in the 1890's should be paid reparations.
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