Time, Capitalism and Alienation: A Socio-Historical Inquiry Into the Making of Modern Time (Historical Materialism Book)

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, problematizing the rise to hegemony of a clock-time regime harnessing various social temporalities to the purpose of capitalist development. This book sheds light on the alienating tendencies of the modern temporal regime and the relationship between time and modern economic development. Biographical note Jonathan Martineau, Ph.D. (2012), York University, currently teaches at Concordia University and at Université du Québec à Montréal. He has published Marxisme anglo-saxon. Figures contemporaines (Montréal, Lux, 2013), as well as many articles and translations. Readership All interested in Time studies, social theory, Marx and Marxism, history of Europe, heterodox economics, social science journals, academic librairies, humanities journals, history of technology. Machine generated contents note: 1. Theory, Method, Time -- 1. Alienation, Reification, Method and Time -- 2. Time in the Social Sciences: S̀ocial Time' -- 3. Norbert Elias, Barbara Adam and Time Studies: Towards a Concept of Social Time -- 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 -- 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. 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, problematizing the rise to hegemony of a clock-time regime harnessing various social temporalities to the purpose of capitalist development. This book sheds light on the alienating tendencies of the modern temporal regime and the relationship between time and modern economic development. Book jacket 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.