Print XV, the worker: a woman worker holding a card, with the red line Her day off is Thursday. His is Monday, on a white T-shirt

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Print XV, the worker · The Café Editions

Her day off is Thursday. His is Monday. · Print XV, the worker

$70 · Open edition

The story

Soviet Union, 1929. To keep the factories running every day, the country switched to a continuous five-day week. Every worker got a rest day, marked by a color or a Roman numeral, while everyone else kept working.

Husbands, wives and friends were often given different days, so families rarely rested together. By the summer of 1931 the plan was dropped for a six-day week with a shared day off.

The dog was never consulted. He took every day off.

Source: the Soviet calendar, the continuous week of 1929 to 1931. The photograph is from the Femage archive, and the dog is ours.

The print

Print XV, the second from the drawer: a worker of the Soviet continuous week, holding her card, in one black and white photograph, with one red line: "Her day off is Thursday. His is Monday."

Open edition. Every shirt comes with its story card, printed like an old newspaper.

The edition

The Prints are an open edition: not signed, not numbered, and not limited. Each one comes with its story card, printed like an old newspaper.

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