The Five Day, Forty Hour Work Week


Though the eight hour day and the five-day week had been around for sometime, it was Henry Ford who popularized them in 1926. It is of interest that this was also the year that Borger sprang to life.

     The forty hour week had not arrived in Borger at this time, and people were often on round-the-clock schedules with 8 hours on and eight hours off, so some were working sixteen hour days.