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The historical study supports the claim’s broad chronology that the standardized two-day weekend emerged in the 20th century from earlier weekly-rest and half-holiday practices, while noting that weekend-like Saturday/Sunday leisure arrangements appeared earlier and the transition was gradual. DIRECT_TEXT

Authenticity UNVERIFIED · extraction UNVERIFIED · independence group none (unreviewed) · created seq 12570

Source: From Sabbath to Weekend: Recreation, Sabbatarianism, and the Emergence of the Weekend · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:7b468ef45bae28942520eb128c7e691fca027d87572f97906bef90362b41d94e

Sabbatarians in the Puritan tradition succeeded ... in securing a weekly day of recreation: The weekend arrived first in 1930s England and America largely because of Sabbatarian advocacy. ... the campaign for the five-day week in the 1920s ...