The History of the Weekend

[Anti-Capitalist1]

It is pretty standard, at least in the USA, that you work five days, then chill for two days, Saturday and Sunday, which are called the weekend. How exactly did the weekend come about? IT seems as if it just popped out of no where somewhere in between modern times and the industrial revolution. I had heard that the labor party was responsible for it, I know sure as hell capitalists wouldn't have wanted it, but can anyone give me a detailed description of its history?

[YKTMX]

Well, Sunday has always been a day of rest in the Western world because it's the Sabbath. Saturday was added just to improve working conditions. Don't think their was one "date" or piece of legislation which signals the start of the "weekend" as we know it. This is not "detailed" I realise.

[Hampton]

From parliament.uk-


Saturday sittings The House at one time sat regularly on Saturdays. It is recorded that the demise of Saturday sittings began in 1732 through the influence of Sir Robert Walpole that he "might secure at least one day's hunting a week". Such, perhaps is the origin of the weekend, which spread eventually to the public life of most of the world. It was reinforced from the later 19th century, when Fridays no longer saw long, or very important, debates, and adjournment from 1902 was at 5.30 pm, although for most of the 19th century Wednesday had been the shortest sitting day. The weekend habit was reviled by Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, who accordingly sought to reverse the Friday arrangements in 1906. The House rejected this proposal. As mentioned in the main text, weekend sittings are now very rare. Indeed, the House has only sat on four Saturdays since 1939.

www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/p04.pdf+%22origin+of+the+weekend%22&hl=en]Link (http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:Dx4B_RHjee0J:

And this from www.present-truth.org:


The decree of Constantine, however, was foreign to most Christians in the empire. The Sabbath-keeping Christians were in a quandary. They were so grateful to Constantine for the cessation of the Diocletian persecution, and were so elated by his "conversion" to Christianity, that they were placed in a dreadful dilemma when he enacted his Sunday law. To defy it would have appeared ungrateful as well as insubordinate. Resisting Constantine's pagan predecessors had been much easier. Thus many accomodated Constantine's law by keeping two days, and in some parts of the Roman empire for a number of centuries, both Sabbath and Sunday were declared days of rest. This was the origin of the weekend rest adopted by many nations today. Generally speaking, those who favored Sunday-keeping chose Sabbath as a fast day and Sunday a feast day, and those who favored Sabbath-keeping adopted the opposite role for each day. But in either case there was a general compliance with the law.

www.present-truth.org/Liberty/standish/liberty/litb12.htm+%22origin+of+the+weekend%22&hl=en]Link (http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:shbsDDz_w-0J:[url).

[RABBIT - THE - CUBAN - MILITANT]

its because friday is the last day of the working week . Saturday is the sabbath. and sunday is a day off because christians go to church on this day because christ was resurrected on the day after the sabbath

[Eastside Revolt]

LOL it's hillarious, the originally trivial issues that now mold our society.