the five day work week started in 1936.
the five day work week started in 1936.
when did the five day work week start?
1936
in the soviet union between 1929 and 1940, most factory and enterprise workers, but not collective farm workers, used five- and six-day work weeks while the entire country continued to use the traditional seven-day week. from 1929 to 1951, five national holidays were days of rest (, , ). from autumn 1929 to summer 1931, the remaining 360 days of the year were subdivided into 72 five-day work weeks beginning on . workers were assigned any one of the five days as their day off, even if their spouse or friends might be assigned a different day off. peak usage of the five-day work week occurred on at 72% of industrial workers. from summer 1931 until , each gregorian month was subdivided into five six-day work weeks, more-or-less, beginning with the first day of each month. the sixth day of each six-day work week was a uniform day of rest. on 74.2% of industrial workers were on non-continuous schedules, mostly six-day work weeks, while 25.8% were still on continuous schedules, mostly five-day work weeks. the gregorian calendar with its irregular month lengths and the traditional seven-day week were used in the soviet union during its entire existence, including 1929–1940; for example, in the masthead of pravda, the official communist newspaper, and in both soviet calendars displayed here. the traditional names of the seven-day week continued to be used, including "resurrection" (воскресенье) for sunday and "sabbath" (суббота) for saturday, despite the government's official atheism.
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glaser, used to a five-day work week at the times saw employees of the worker laboring six days a week. naturally, he tried to change that by ordering a five-day work week. eisler immediately vetoed his order saying that "we couldn't delay the revolution for a day." eisler was the true force in command, from work week length to editorial policy; he was the one really managing the daily worker.
james glaser