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To: Leaning Right
Laborers in Andrew Carnegie’s mills worked twelve hour days, seven days a week.

Six days

17 posted on 02/23/2020 5:18:12 PM PST by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: MileHi

I believe it was six days a week until the Homestead strike was broken. Then Carnegie upped it to seven days a week. A few details are here:

https://www.reference.com/business-finance/did-andrew-carnegie-treat-his-workers-de36d945a374a10f


18 posted on 02/23/2020 5:23:14 PM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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