Factories. Treatment of workers, working conditions.

During the 19th century, arguably one of the best companies to work for was the company's owned by George Westinghouse. Hiscompanies were well known for being modern and the progressive treatment of workers. Westinghouse's Air Brake Company was the first company to institute a nine hour work day, and fifty -five hour work week in 1869. Along with that, shortly after his first trip to England, Westinghouse institutes a half-day off on Saturdays the first company believed to have done so. Also besides implementing half days, Westinghouse treated his workers fairly as he gave then a fair percent of the revenues made from sale of new innovative technology, and as a result of this, Westinghouse today is well known as a great engineer, and one of the first progressiveProgressive entrepreneurs who treated his workers fairly.



Sources:

Jill Jones, Empires of Light, Random House publishing, New York 2003

The Library of Congress Working conditions at the Westinghouse Works, (cited11/2/2007)(about 2 pages).Available from: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/papr/west/westcond.html