"40 Hour Week (For a Livin')" is a song written by Dave Loggins, Don Schlitz and Lisa Silver, and recorded by American country music band Alabama.

Malone also noted that, with few exceptions, "almost no one in country music has spoken for the industrial laborer," one of the main groups of workers Alabama salutes in this song.

[2] The song was used by NBC Sports over the closing credits during its broadcast of Super Bowl XX on January 26, 1986.

"40 Hour Week (For a Livin')" is one of the songs central to a point of contention among country music historians.

Several hard-core country fans were quick to point out the discrepancy, but Billboard magazine writer Paul Grein responded, "Only a Scrooge would count that against them.