We erected one of the great cultural constructions of our times, the weekend, to make fun more culturally and institutionally available.
Tag: weekends
The history of the weekend and how it’s changed our culture of leisure:
For many people weekend free time has become not a chance to escape work but a chance to create work that is more meaningful—to work at recreation—in order to realize the personal satisfactions that the workplace no longer offers.
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Mark Larson 