Not-So-Fun-Fact! The 12-hour workday was a reform which shortened a previously longer (unregulated) working day, which could be 16-18 hours a day, six days a week. Even after this reform, many industrial employers would attempt to screw over their workers by messing with the factory’s clocks - one reason why some older unions still maintain their hard-won right to handle the company clocks to this day.
Not-So-Fun-Fact! The 12-hour workday was a reform which shortened a previously longer (unregulated) working day, which could be 16-18 hours a day, six days a week. Even after this reform, many industrial employers would attempt to screw over their workers by messing with the factory’s clocks - one reason why some older unions still maintain their hard-won right to handle the company clocks to this day.