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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

It’s after severe protests in pre-Nazi Germany and USSR that all major powers suddenly decided to shorten the work day from 10-12 hours to 8

Some industries in the west has been adopting the 10 or 8 hour working day even before the soviet union has existed. And this is going to be only my personal speculations, but as the nature of the work itself has been changing over time, so did the time requirements.

from 6 days a week to 5

It's funny that you mention that, because one thing that I distinctly remember from what my parents and grandparents has been telling me about the previous regime was something called "working saturday of honor", when the workers were mandated to come work an extra day. Some of them were to compensate for the state holidays, some just to ramp up the productivity.