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Nettie Ruch 1884 - 1973

Nettie Ruch of Monticello, Piatt County, Illinois was born on October 8, 1884, and died at age 88 years old in February 1973.
Nettie Ruch
Monticello, Piatt County, Illinois 61856
October 8, 1884
February 1973
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Nettie Ruch's History: 1884 - 1973

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    1884

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    October 8, 1884
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  • 02/dd
    1973

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    February 1973
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    Nettie Ruch lived 12 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 88.
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In 1884, in the year that Nettie Ruch was born, on May 1st, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions - a US association - first resolved that "eight hours shall constitute a legal day's labour from and after May 1, 1886, and that we recommend to labour organisations throughout this jurisdiction that they so direct their laws as to conform to this resolution by the time named." Previously, workdays would consist of 10 to 16 hours a day - 6 days a week. It would take years before the 8 hour workday became common practice - and longer before it became a law.
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In 1913, she was 29 years old when Henry Ford installed the first moving assembly line for the mass production of an entire automobile. It had previously taken 12 hours to assemble a whole vehicle - now it took only two hours and 30 minutes! Inspired by the production lines at flour mills, breweries, canneries and industrial bakeries, along with the disassembly of animal carcasses in Chicago’s meat-packing plants, Ford created moving belts for parts and the assembly line was born.
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