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Waiting for the Weekend is a book published in 1991 by Canadian architect, professor and writer Witold Rybczynski.

In Waiting for the Weekend, Rybczynski recounts the evolution of the seven-day week, which came into being with the Babylonian calendar, a the later, more modern, development of the two-day weekend. In so doing, he tells the history of leisure and time off; starting first with " taboo" days, market day s, public festival s and holy day s and how, with the coming of the Industrial Revolution the practice of "keeping Saint Monday", that is, staying home from work, evolved into the modern weekend.

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