The employer is busy trying to get more labor out of the worker, while the worker is trying to keep herself from being worked to death.

When workers did organize, many of them immigrants, cities like Boston and New York followed London’s lead and created formal police forces to suppress the unrest.

There is a lonely absurdity in the idea of racing against the clock at the end of time,

What I find in chronos is not comfort but dread and nihilism, a form of time that bears down on me, on others, relentlessly.

As much as it was about intensification, Taylorism was also about breaking apart and codifying this process in a way that concentrated knowledge in the hands of employers rather than employees.

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“The smallest act in the most limited circumstances bears the seed of the same boundlessness, because one deed, and sometimes one word, suffices to change every constellation.”

WHEN LOOKING AT the history of how productivity has been measured, it is always illuminating to ask: Who is timing whom? The answer to this question often identifies a person who has purchased someone else’s time or owns it outright—and who, in either case, wants to make the most of it.

Now, not only does increased productivity not lead to free time, but it doesn’t lead to money for American workers.