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How the Week Organizes and Tyrannizes Our Lives
No one has ever really been able to topple the seven-day week. French revolutionaries tried to institute a ten-day week. Bolsheviks aimed for a five-day week. No one tried harder than Miss Elisabeth Achelis, a New York socialite, heir to the American Hard Rubber Company fortune, and an admirer of Melvil Dewey, he of the Dewey decimal system and si
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The sun makes days, seasons, and years, and the moon makes months, but people invented weeks. What makes a Tuesday a Tuesday, and why does it come, so remorselessly, every seven days? A week is mostly made up.
Jill Lepore • How the Week Organizes and Tyrannizes Our Lives
The development that really established the seven-day week as insurmountable, Henkin contends, came in the middle of the twentieth century: the television schedule.