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Subj: Re: Today in History - May 1
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From: G0TEZ@GB7CIP.#32.GBR.EU
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There is still a ;ot tp learn abput such things as the working wee.
I started wprk in the late 50s and, at my workplace, they decoded to
reduce our working week from 44 hours to 42 which meant that we didn't
really need to work the 1/2 day Saturday so they tacked the 2 hopurs on to
the remainong 5 and, with a combination of that and removing our 1/4 hour
morning lunch braks, managed to take us to a 42 hr, 5 day week.
Long after Henry Ford.
The other thing I found, later in life, was that most countries had a 4
week, paid summer holiday. It was hinted that we would get it with
membership of the European Economic Comunity in the mid 70s but it never
happened.
To my knowledge and I am now long retired, it still hasn't happened. The
French still take their 4 weeks, i.e. the whole of August as their summer
holiday and, depending on length of service. often get 6 weeks. The
Germans andm to my knowledge, all of Europe, even eastern Europe like
Former Yugoslavia, have had a four week summer break for many years, only
the UK stays at two.
> The decision to reduce the workweek from six to five days had
> originally been made in 1922. According to an article published
> in The New York Times that March, Edsel Ford, Henry's son and the
> company's president, explained that "Every man needs more than
> one day a week for rest and recreation....The Ford Company always
> has sought to promote [an] ideal home life for its employees. We
> believe that in order to live properly every man should have more
> time to spend with his family."
>
> Henry Ford said of the decision: "It is high time to rid
> ourselves of the notion that leisure for workmen is either 'lost
> time' or a class privilege." At Ford's own admission, however,
> the five-day workweek was also instituted in order to increase
> productivity: Though workers' time on the job had decreased, they
> were expected to expend more effort while they were there.
> Manufacturers all over the country, and the world, soon followed
> Ford's lead, and the Monday-to-Friday workweek became standard
> practice.
>
>
> 73, K.O. N0KFQ
> Another old retired guy
> E-mail: n0kfq@winlink.org
> N0KFQ@N0KFQ.#SWMO.MO.USA.NA
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>
Do you get 4 or 2 weeks in the USA ?
73 - Ian, G0TEZ @ GB7CIP
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