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This episode we talk about the history of the experience of time. Yes, even our experience of time itself changed during the Industrial Revolution. The big change we can think of as a change from task-orientation—where we think of our days as devoted to particular things—to time-orientation—where we think of our days as cut up into particular buckets like work-time, play-time and sleep-time. We talk about this change, and how our current experience of time might be changing yet again as new technologies bring work back into the home, and new kinds of surveillance allow for ever greater control of work-time.
Reading List:
E. P. Thompson, Time, Work and Industrial Capitalism in Customs in Common
Hans-Joachim Voth, Time and Work in the Industrial Revolution