How Workers Won The Right To Bank Holidays  - Labour Heartlands

How Workers Won The Right To Bank Holidays  - Labour Heartlands

From Factory Floors to Free Mondays: The Radical History of Bank Holidays As you lie in bed this Easter Monday, savouring that delicious sense of liberation—no alarm, no commute, no boss peering over your shoulder—spare a thought for the long and surprisingly radical history behind your bonus day of rest.  Bank holidays, like so many things working people now consider basic, were not handed down by generous bosses or benevolent rulers. They were…