They have 48 h weeks and the ability to add an extra 50 hours per month.

There's a name for places with a 60 hour work week: they are called sweat shops.

Although it's not great to need to work that much, you can make absolute bank doing overtime.

My mom's a nurse and occasionally gets called in out of the blue if there's shortages. If she agrees, she can get x2 to sometimes even x3 depending on what time and day of the year it is.

As much of a drag it can be getting woken up to work, she still gets excited when it happens because of how good the pay is.

I don't believe that "most modern countries" don't make exceptions for work that requires it or critical fields. In fact, those of us who've worked non-traditional shifts usually get some perk out of it. When I worked 12 hour shifts I'd work 3-5 days in a row, then get the same amount of days off. To this day 5 days on 5 days off is the best schedule I've ever had. I also had a friend working in mines up north in Canada. He'd work on-shift for weeks at a time and then get 3 weeks off with a flight paid anywhere he wants in the world. Is Canada not a modern country?

Most modern "developed" countries. 48 hour standard work weeks are pretty standard for developing countries.

India has a 48 hour work week which is unrelated to this article.

I will get my mom to send me a picture of the production floor of her factory, you get me a picture of an Indian Foxconn plant, and we will see how different they truly are.

Not sure, but I assume 40 hours total. It looks like India has a nationwide maximum of 48 hours before overtime. So they have a whole extra day's work than we do in the US.

That is now for both men and women.