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The Invention of the Weekend
social historyThe two-day weekend is a surprisingly recent (1). For much of the nineteenth century, factory workers in Britain had only Sunday off, and many simply did not turn up on Monday, a habit (2) known as 'Saint Monday'. Employers eventually offered a half-day on Saturday in (3) for reliable attendance on Monday. In the United States, the full two-day weekend spread in the 1920s and 1930s, partly to (4) Jewish workers, whose day of rest falls on Saturday. The idea was later (5) by laws that limited the length of the working week.