The Sunday payment seems inherent to our calendar, but it was not always like this. The law that made it possible was approved on December 12, 1903 under the presidency of Antonio Maura, who, determined to “carry out the revolution from above to prevent others from doing it from below,” would recover a religious precept abolished in the liberal stage. and prohibited working on Sundays, a right supported by the workers’ parties, the most anti-clerical.
It would place Spain at the forefront of European labor law initiatives, despite its relative industrial backwardness, and it would not be to everyone’s taste: while employers complained, devoted wives accused their husbands of taking bread out of their mouths. their offspring. And the average worker focused his leisure time on taverns and bullfights, which did work.
