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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Richard Morgan

A century after the weekend was invented, it has disappeared. Let’s reclaim leisure

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‘The weekend mindset is an invention overdue for radical reinvention.’ Photograph: Diego Fiore/Alamy

It was a Saturday. In fact, the Saturday.

Almost exactly a century ago, on 25 September 1926, Henry Ford instituted a policy of weekends for his workforce. Although various labor campaigns had existed for decades to try to carve out what we now call the weekend, this was the first widespread adoption.

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