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The two-day weekend did not exist until the 1920s and was not standard until 1938. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: How The Weekend Was Invented | Gene Veith · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:b862e81cc73eaead57a65936a56078d34c7d717190d63522711219ecdaf688a7

Did you know that the weekend–that is, two days off after five days of work–didn’t exist until the 1920s and wasn’t standard until 1938? Before that, everyone worked six days a week.