Future of Work: The Traditional 9–5 Workday Is Over
Although we have it much better than in the 1800s, 1 in 5 employees plan to quit their job in 2022.
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5 min readSep 5, 2022
She’s a little spinner. Spinning 2 summers. Her shift starts at 6 am and ends at 7 pm. She has 1 1/2 hours off at noon. 12-hour days were standard.
He’s a youngster picking 50 to 80 pounds of cotton per day. His knees hurt. He’s doing this for the family to barely make ends meet.
Another small boy is “employed” at a mill that is full of small girls and boys.
In the 1800s, this was the status quo.
It was common that children as young as 5 were working in mines, mills and factories.
The labor movement and America’s first unions were a response.
As a concession to these events, at the height of the industrial revolution in 1894, Labor Day was established as a federal holiday by President Grover Cleveland.
Workers then were fighting for decent pay, fairer working standards, rights, more equitable…
