Henry Ford Gave us 40 hour, 5 day work week: Not Unions

a reply to: stosh64

It is always good to establish the facts no matter how old the misconception or misinformation.

The work week was officially 44 hours until 1949 or so (I may be off by a year or two), from that point on it dropped to 40.

If you look at the economy today, we have clearly hit a point where half the people are working 60 hours and the other half are working 0 hours. That would imply the real work week today should be somewhere around 25 in order to get all the work done.