Work & Productivity · Recorded milestone
Five-day, 40-hour week
Recorded year1926
Henry Ford moves his factory workers to a five-day, 40-hour week with no pay cut, a pattern US law adopts in 1940.
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.