That schedule seems rough, but like even today in America, 12 hour night shifts aren't uncommon. Most of the factory work out here is on a 12 hour shift with 3 shifts/week starting so you aren't full time until you pick up a 4th and are working 48 hour weeks and still need to pick up another to get enough overtime to make the $15-17/hr wage worth it.
yeah shit's rough in the us, i have experience in europe, plenty of family working in factories (did a bit but was not in a 24/24 one) and the moving shifts every week is a killer, they still prefered night shifts only over the moving schedule, but we're talking about 40h a week annualized to something like 35h a week, not as rough at all, worst part? salary's the same (if not lower) but it's livable here (well apart from big city centers but they don't have factories anyways)
yeah fixed planning is much better, agreed, and soviet conditions were better generally for workers so factoy shifts were probably not as much a pain
That schedule seems rough, but like even today in America, 12 hour night shifts aren't uncommon. Most of the factory work out here is on a 12 hour shift with 3 shifts/week starting so you aren't full time until you pick up a 4th and are working 48 hour weeks and still need to pick up another to get enough overtime to make the $15-17/hr wage worth it.
yeah shit's rough in the us, i have experience in europe, plenty of family working in factories (did a bit but was not in a 24/24 one) and the moving shifts every week is a killer, they still prefered night shifts only over the moving schedule, but we're talking about 40h a week annualized to something like 35h a week, not as rough at all, worst part? salary's the same (if not lower) but it's livable here (well apart from big city centers but they don't have factories anyways)