History of the United States II / Unit 3 USH2 0326 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Wages and Hours
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The idea
In nineteen hundred the average factory wage was about twenty cents an hour, an annual income of barely six hundred dollars.
In practice
A standard working week of sixty hours: ten hours a day, six days a week.
Where people slip
About a fifth of urban industrial workers lived at or below poverty. The Yawp adds a month of unemployment in a typical year.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
- Nothing. This is a starting point.
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