In 1926, in an interview published by World’s Work magazine, industrial titan Henry Ford confesses why he reduced his workers’ labor load from six days and forty-eight hours to five days and forty hours, all while keeping pay the same. He said: It is the influence of leisure on consumption which makes the [five day workweek] so necessary. The people who consume the bulk of goods are the people who make them. That is a fact we must never forget, that is the secret of our prosperity.
