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Book SynopsisMartineau challenges us to see time not as an objective reality, but as something structured by power and property relations. In Time, Capitalism And Alienation, the author offers and account of the histories of social time in Europe. 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, problematizing the rise to hegemony of a clock-time regime.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction CHAPTER 1: THEORY, METHOD, TIME A) Alienation, reification, method and time B) Time in the social sciences: ‘Social time’ C) 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 A) The innovation of the clock: clock-time, wage-labour and commerce in context B) The transition from feudalism to capitalism C) The clock-time infrastructure D) Newton’s time E) Remarks on pre-capitalist social time relations CHAPTER 3: CAPITALIST SOCIAL TIME RELATIONS A) Clock-time in the capitalist context B) Value formation, appropriation, and abstract time C) Labour-market, capitalist industrialisation and clock-time D) World Standard Time E) Alienated time and reified time F) The temporal forms of domination and resistance Conclusion Bibliography Index
