In recent years, the working day has been one of the main topics of debate in Colombia, after Law 2101 of 2021 will be approved, which aims to reduce working hours per week, from 48 hours to 42 hours.
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Where did the idea of working eight hours a day come from?
More than a century ago, the world was controlled by a series of businessmen who They will decide how long they will adjust to work their employees in its different factories.
According to an article published by National Geographic, people and children they were forced to work up to 14 hours a day in the factories that were created after the Industrial Revolution, a fact that marked the world and was the main event that led it to modernity and development.
Samuel H.G. Kidd, he explained in an 1857 history of the British labor movement. “You could see the children of the factories, rising in the morning long before the sun or dawn, some without shoes or stockings, dragging their weary bodies through the rain and snow through the streets of Christian Manchester”.
Henry Ford implemented the five-day day.
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This ‘slavery’ method it was developed by thousands of companies and factories throughout the world, from England to the United States, where it was one of the first countries to promote workers’ rights.
In the union of the 19th century there were several principles of the world that got to demanded fewer working hours and less burden for workers who spent most of their lives inside a factory.
In 1847, the first major replacement of workers took place after the factories law decree that the working day will be reduced to 10 hours a day of work.
However, this was one of the first steps for employees and workers who They demanded an eight-hour workday. arguing that you will be able to distribute your day into three parts, eight for sleep, eight for work and eight for leisure.
The debate will be strengthened until after the First World War, when henry ford He was one of the first entrepreneurs in implement the working day of eight hours a day and five days a week in 1922this with the aim of making their employees more productive.
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A self-sufficient and self-respecting democracy cannot claim any justification for the existence of child labor
This initiative was a complete success. reveal National Geographic. This, because workers have more leisure time and entertainment with their families, causing money to move more in the economy.
Although the idea of Ford was taken up by various businessmen, the United States continued to have factories that They have long daily hours of work.
In 1937 the President of the United States, Franklin Delano RooseveltHe was one of the main promoters of the Fair Labor Standards Act, one year after the norm that determined the first minimum wage in the country and a working day not exceeding 44 hours per week.
“A self-respecting and self-sufficient democracy cannot claim any justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for cutting workers’ wages or stretching their working hours,” Roosevelt explained in a speech.
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