WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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10 hours a day, six days a week
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10 hours a day, seven days a week
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12 hours a day, six days a week
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12 hours a day, seven days a week
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Detailed explanation-1: -Working hours in the factory were usually long, from dawn to dusk, six days per week. More unskilled workers were needed than ever before to work the massive machines.
Detailed explanation-2: -The working conditions in factories were often harsh. Hours were long, typically ten to twelve hours a day. Working conditions were frequently unsafe and led to deadly accidents.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the 1800s, many Americans worked seventy hours or more per week and the length of the workweek became an important political issue. Since then the workweek’s length has decreased considerably.
Detailed explanation-4: -It stretched from dawn to dusk (sixteen hours in summer and eight in winter), but, as the Bishop Pilkington has noted, work was intermittent-called to a halt for breakfast, lunch, the customary afternoon nap, and dinner. Depending on time and place, there were also midmorning and midafternoon refreshment breaks.