Time, work-discipline & industrial capitalismE.P Thompson
Time, work-discipline & industrial capitalism
by E.P Thompson
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There's a really interesting article by the historian EP Thompson that talks a bit about pre-industrial work patterns called 'Time, Work Discipline and Industrial Capitalism'. He makes the point that before clocks and factories, work was usually seasonal and came in spurts of very hard work interspersed with idleness, and that this is also how a lot of artists work. Your…
on “The thing standing between procrastination and daily progress is ritual” ↗For anyone interested in reading more about this, E.P. Thompson’s Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism is a really good read, especially if you follow his citations to Lewis Mumford and others. Although industrial capitalism has sort of faded in some parts of the world, the insights I think are as relevant…
on “The clock does not measure time; it produces it” ↗I remember enjoying E.P. Thompson's take on "Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism" in college. He has a lot of interesting commentary about how technology in the form of accurate timepieces played a role in our concept of labor. The article is here behind a paywall (https://www.jstor.org/stable/649749).…
on “Pre-industrial workers had a shorter workweek than today's (1991)” ↗…adds structure to both the timing and the flow of the discussion. Thanks for that too. That's exactly the communication platform I made/am making. For me there's also the "human" element as described in Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism [0]. Like how "human time" is not "modern life time," but we're still humans so wouldn't it be nice to have a space where we communicate in human time. But yes Gresham's Law... hmmm... [0] https://www.sv.uio.no/sai/english/research/projects/anthropo...
on “Feynman’s Breakthrough, Disregard Others (2017)” ↗