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"In Time, Capitalism and Alienation: A Socio-Historical Inquiry into the Making of Modern Time, Jonathan Martineau offers an account of the histories of social time in Europe, from the innovation of the clock around 1300 to the making of World Standard Time around the turn of the twentieth cent...
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| Published: |
Haymarket Books,
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| Publisher Address: | Chicago, IL : |
| Publication Dates: |
2016. ©2015 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Historical materialism book series,
volume 96 |
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| Summary: |
"In Time, Capitalism and Alienation: A Socio-Historical Inquiry into the Making of Modern Time, Jonathan Martineau offers an account of the histories of social time in Europe, from the innovation of the clock around 1300 to the making of World Standard Time around the turn of the twentieth century. Approaching 'time' as a social phenomenon traversed by various power and property relations, this work provides a socio-theoretical and historical analysis of the relationship between clock-time and capitalist social relations. In doing so, Martineau problematises the rise to hegemony of a clock-t |
| Carrier Form: | 178 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [169]-176) and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9781608466405 160846640X |
| Index Number: | HM656 |
| CLC: | F03-09 |
| Call Number: | F03-09/M385 |
| Contents: | Acknowledgements -- Introduction. Theory, method, time. Alienation, reification, method and time - Time in the social sciences: 'social time' - Norbert Elias, Barbara Adam and time studies: towards a concept of social time -- The origin of clock-time, and the origin of capitalism. The innovation of the clock: clock-time, wage-labour and commerce in context - The transition from feudalism to capitalism - The clock-time infrastructure - Newton's time - Remarks on pre-capitalist social time relations -- Capitalist social time relations. Clock-time in the capitalist context - Value formation, ap |