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01/11/2010: "The Past"

This is from an 1899 magazine article about how John H. Patterson got more out of his employees at National Cash Register by treating them swell. Ah, the hard working 19th century American, rewarded by only having to work 52 and a half hours a week, compared to, I'm guessing, those slave drivers over at the buggy whip factory putting in a full 60 hour week. Of course, they didn't have any decent TV shows back then.

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To encourage home life and comforts, the hours of work were reduced for men from ten to nine and one-half hours, and for women from ten to eight hours, while the rate of wages remains as on a basis of ten hours. In addition to this the young women have ten minutes’ recess, morning and afternoon, and they come an hour after the men in the morning, and leave ten minutes before them in the evening. Saturday half-holidays for all employees have been the rule during the past year. A kindergarten for the little children and a cooking school for the older girls and young women have been provided at the company’s expense.