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IdaBriggs

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28. My math comes out differently: 52 * 2 = 104, plus 8 vacation days = 112.

Thu Aug 29, 2013, 01:34 PM

Aug 2013

And that doesn't include common holidays like Thanksgiving, 4th of July, Memorial Day, Labor Day, etc. that are days off for everyone who isn't in either retail or the hospitality industry.

Isn't the entire concept of "weekend" a fairly recent innovation?

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Why a Medieval Peasant Got More Vacation Time Than You [View all] n2doc Aug 2013 OP

A week off to quaff ale seems pretty good right about now. FSogol Aug 2013 #1

Keep in mind life expectancy statistics include child mortality jeff47 Aug 2013 #4

+1 Javaman Aug 2013 #7

And those of the upper classes could expect to live as long as today. Egalitarian Thug Aug 2013 #16

Did this book cover Italy in the 14th century? It is thought by some historians that CTyankee Aug 2013 #26

Yes, it does. Javaman Aug 2013 #27

Thanks! I'll try to get it from my library. It's funny, because if I had seen it in the stacks I CTyankee Aug 2013 #29

You will love this book! nt Javaman Aug 2013 #38

High child-bearing mortality too. PotatoChip Aug 2013 #8

While working on the family tree, PatSeg Aug 2013 #13

Your grandparents probably worked much harder than, and were subjected to stresses, Egalitarian Thug Aug 2013 #17

It does appear that a more urban lifestyle PatSeg Aug 2013 #23

We need social time, we're social animals. I believe this system kills more of us than any other Egalitarian Thug Aug 2013 #41

Interesting... Bay Boy Aug 2013 #31

As did mine. Many of my ancestors from the 1700's and 1800's lived into their 80's Nay Aug 2013 #32

At first I thought PatSeg Aug 2013 #39

Interesting. When my mother was a child in a large city in Canada in the 20's, there was Nay Aug 2013 #42

It is hard to imagine what it was like PatSeg Aug 2013 #45

I looked back at my grandmother and her siblings (nine children in all) PatSeg Aug 2013 #37

A note on medieval life expectancy: Lizzie Poppet Aug 2013 #6

Excellent post. woo me with science Aug 2013 #21

Computers, cell phones, video games, and flat screen TVs PatSeg Aug 2013 #40

Sure, they all... bobclark86 Aug 2013 #2

+1 Puzzledtraveller Aug 2013 #3

I wish more of us would question the status quo. knitter4democracy Aug 2013 #5

I agree Joe Shlabotnik Aug 2013 #36

you selfish people only think about yourselves, do you ever stop to think about the blight Snake Plissken Aug 2013 #9

Wrong link maxsolomon Aug 2013 #10

strange...corrected n2doc Aug 2013 #11

Same thing happened to me when I put it on FB maxsolomon Aug 2013 #34

Keynes didn't assume... Xolodno Aug 2013 #12

There are 2 leisure classes - one at each end of the economic spectrum grahamhgreen Aug 2013 #14

LOL, I bet that peasant would love to learn to type and sit in air conditioning all day snooper2 Aug 2013 #15

That sounds horrible. hunter Aug 2013 #47

Also, those guys in Supermax get SHIT-TONS more time off nt Dreamer Tatum Aug 2013 #18

the modern attitude of treating humans like they are cogs in a corporate machine Supersedeas Aug 2013 #19

the 40 hour week became the 40 hour paycheck for unlimited hours markiv Aug 2013 #20

Kick for quaffing ale and then a siesta. nt Mojorabbit Aug 2013 #22

ttt Blue_Tires Aug 2013 #24

production, not money, was the primary motive--and there were potlatches MisterP Aug 2013 #25

My math comes out differently: 52 * 2 = 104, plus 8 vacation days = 112. IdaBriggs Aug 2013 #28

A week off quaffing ale, with no annoying emails to check, phone calls to take, Nye Bevan Aug 2013 #30

My company just got rid of earned vacation time. Avalux Aug 2013 #33

Why do you think they're called "the idle rich" ? dickthegrouch Aug 2013 #35

Whose peasants/serfs are we talking about? Art_from_Ark Aug 2013 #43

A rather tiny time frame here. JNelson6563 Aug 2013 #44

But what about peasant women? theHandpuppet Aug 2013 #46

K&R woo me with science Aug 2013 #48

So THAT's why witch burnings and other executions were so well attended Pretzel_Warrior Aug 2013 #49

And our educational expectations reflect that... HereSince1628 Aug 2013 #50