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Big fan of this poem about work and time-discipline from 1639: You know that Munday is Sundayes brother; Tuesday is such another; Wednesday you must go to Church and pray; Thursday is half-holiday; On Friday it is too late to begin to spin; The Saturday is half-holiday agen.
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Source is this 1967 article on industrial capitalism's use of time for discipline by E. P. Thompson jstor.org/stable/649749