The present-day concept of the relatively longer ‘week-end’ first arose in the industrial north of Britain in the early 19th century[4] and was originally a voluntary arrangement between factory owners and workers allowing Saturday afternoon off starting at 2 pm on the basis that staff would be available for work sober and refreshed on Monday morning.[10] The Oxford English Dictionary traces the first use of the term weekend to the British magazine Notes and Queries in 1879.[
Nobody is talking about the origin of the weekend. You posted it was some arrangement between owners and workers at a factory. Thanks?
I’m saying it was considered a leftist, liberal idea by all the other factory owners, which led to some having to die to get it. Is it that hard to follow?
Duh, it’s been leftist, since “left” is defined as being progressive and right as being conservative.
To me “someone’s idea” implies its origin, so that was the only thing worth talking about in that context since a change hardly can be a conservative idea.
Well… That’s not the origin of the weekend:
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Nobody is talking about the origin of the weekend. You posted it was some arrangement between owners and workers at a factory. Thanks?
I’m saying it was considered a leftist, liberal idea by all the other factory owners, which led to some having to die to get it. Is it that hard to follow?
in a thread specifically about the origin of the weekend
The origin of a 5 day work week and 8 hour shift*
Duh, it’s been leftist, since “left” is defined as being progressive and right as being conservative.
To me “someone’s idea” implies its origin, so that was the only thing worth talking about in that context since a change hardly can be a conservative idea.