Waiting for the Weekend
by Rybczynski, Witold
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Viking [1991], 1st printing. (Hardcover) 260pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Illustrations, notes, index. "In Waiting for the Weekend, Witold Rybczynski unfolds the history of leisure; there have always been breaks from the routine of work: taboo days, market days, public festivals, holy days - we couldn't survive without them. He explores the origins of the week and the observance of the Sabbath, and shows how, beginning with the industrial revolution, when workers began staying home on Mondays, the practice of 'keeping Saint Monday' evolved into the familiar institution of the weekend". (Ideas, Holidays, Ideas, Industrial Revolution, Labor, Leisure).
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- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 106833
- Title
- Waiting for the Weekend
- Author
- Rybczynski, Witold
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Keywords
- Ideas, Holidays, Ideas, Industrial Revolution, Labor, Leisure
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy;
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Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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Winnipeg, Manitoba
About Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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