Monday has arrived! The week has begun! Time to work hard so we can play hard next weekend. Bring home the bacon. Put a roof over our heads. Provide and conquer. All that jazz.
It’s interesting to think about Monday in these terms. The concept of a five-day work week is extremely modern. It wasn’t until 1926, when Henry Ford implemented a Monday-Friday, five-day work week at the Ford Motor Company factories to boost morale, that the concept of week and weekend really took hold.
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