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QUOTE `{}`	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.
QUOTE `{}`	This shaped the Jewish calendar and then the Christian calendar, which substituted Sunday for Saturday as the day of rest.
QUOTE `{}`	Henry Ford adopted the 5-day work week, with Saturday and Sunday off, in 1926. In 1938, the Fair Labor Standards Act mandated a 40-hour work week, which had the effect of establishing the weekend.