Comment Origin of 40 hour work week (Score 1) 246
What good sources do you have for the adoption of a 40 hour work week as a quality control measure?
I had always imagined 40 hours to be the somewhat arbitrary point at which management, labour, and legislative negotiations arrived based on some other arbitrary calculations such as: dividing a 24 hour day in thirds, and dropping a day from a previous 6 day work schedule. I would be interested in knowing about any findings that 40 hours in a work week was a more optimal quality control point than 35 or 45 hours.
I had always imagined 40 hours to be the somewhat arbitrary point at which management, labour, and legislative negotiations arrived based on some other arbitrary calculations such as: dividing a 24 hour day in thirds, and dropping a day from a previous 6 day work schedule. I would be interested in knowing about any findings that 40 hours in a work week was a more optimal quality control point than 35 or 45 hours.
