alt Hacker NewsThat's not really why (at least in the U.S.) - it was due to strong labor laws otherwise post industrial revolution you'd still have people working 12 hours a day 7 days a week - though with minimum wage stagnation one could argue that many people have to do this anyway just to make ends meet.
https://firmspace.com/theproworker/from-strikes-to-labor-law...
That's exactly what I'm saying! You need labor laws so that you can lower the amount of work across the board and not just in average.
But you can't have labor laws that cut the amount worked by half if you have no way to increase productivity.