The Week End, a Part of Life

The week end is fairly new, and it's something that had to be fought for. Yeh hinkan identifies a number different influences that may have led to the increased a salience of the week in the nineteenth century. The trend toward what he calls stock taking, i think, a sort of accounting of one's affairs and in one's life. And this would be aided by actually the proliferation of mass market diary books with pages already formadded to reflect days of the week.