Time, Capitalism and Alienation : A Socio-Historical Inquiry into the Making of Modern Time.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Theory, Method, Time -- 1 Alienation, Reification, Method and Time -- 2 Time in the Social Sciences: 'Social Time' -- 3 Norbert Elias, Barbara Adam and Time Studies: Towards a Concept of Social Time -- Chapter 2 The Origin of Clock-time, and the Origin of Capitalism -- 1 The Innovation of the Clock: Clock-time, Wage-labour and Commerce in Context -- 2 The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism -- 3 The Clock-time Infrastructure -- 4 Newton's Time -- 5 Remarks on Pre-capitalist Social Time Relations -- Chapter 3 Capitalist Social Time Relations -- 1 Clock-time in the Capitalist Context -- 2 Value Formation, Appropriation, and Abstract-time -- 3 Labour Market, Capitalist Industrialisation, and Clock-time -- 4 World Standard Time -- 5 Alienated Time and Reified Time -- 6 The Temporal Forms of Domination and Resistance -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Terms -- Index of Names.

In Time, Capitalism and Alienation, Jonathan Martineau provides a socio-historical analysis of the modern temporal regime and its relationship to capitalist development, from the innovation of the clock until the advent of World Standard Time.

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