One small error, Ken. Henry Ford offered $5 per 8 hour shift. $30 per week for 6 days. We didn't reach $5/hour until mid twentieth century. Then, thanks to Franklin Roosevelt's 'New Deal' regulations and the success of the Union labor wages zoomed up to put factory workers in the middle class. One of the many reasons the GOP hated Franklin Roosevelt and the Democrats. They had the nerve to put "common men" in proximity to their regal selves.
yes you are correct. if i wrote $5 an hour I was in error.
When I went to work in the foundry, I made double the average factory worker in my area, but half of the GM factory worker's wage in Marion.. I made $2.60 p/hr.
One small error, Ken. Henry Ford offered $5 per 8 hour shift. $30 per week for 6 days. We didn't reach $5/hour until mid twentieth century. Then, thanks to Franklin Roosevelt's 'New Deal' regulations and the success of the Union labor wages zoomed up to put factory workers in the middle class. One of the many reasons the GOP hated Franklin Roosevelt and the Democrats. They had the nerve to put "common men" in proximity to their regal selves.
yes you are correct. if i wrote $5 an hour I was in error.
When I went to work in the foundry, I made double the average factory worker in my area, but half of the GM factory worker's wage in Marion.. I made $2.60 p/hr.