Urban Revolutionaries: 13 Holidays

Urban Revolutionaries: 13 Holidays

Before the arrival of railways in the middle of the nineteenth century, travel was slow, and holidays were optional. Most of the working class in cities were grateful to get one day off each week, and in many cases that was Sunday to be spent in church. Most employers allowed their workers as little time off as they could get away with, and those who weren’t there simply weren’t paid. By the 1870s, cotton workers in Lancashire saved all year and…