Thompson brilliantly explores the changing relationship to time in class society, describing the change from 'time passed' to 'time spent'; the class struggle over the creation of "the new universe of disciplined time" in factory and school.
Originally published as Chapter Six of Customs in Common; E. P. Thompson, Penguin Books, London 1993.
[Pictures; treadmills in the 19th and 21st centuries.]
Time, Work-Discipline and Industrial Capitalism
(E. P. Thompson)
