Explorations: Heavenly Machine - Clocks - Changing concepts of time caused by clocks
Duration: 7 mins 3 secs
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Background to the Channel 4 Millennium Series ‘The Day the World Took Off’, shown in 2000. With thanks to Windfall Films.
Standing beside a machine for clocking in workers, Simon Schaffer discusses the rise of factory or industrial time. People are now paid by their time, rather than the task. The clock becomes a symbol of factory society and unites the workers with their machines. A huge difference from other societies and earlier history. |
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| Created: | 2018-03-09 17:53 |
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| Collection: | A History of the World (The Day the World Took Off) |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Prof Alan Macfarlane |
| Language: | eng (English) |
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