Part III: The tyranny and future of labour time

The industrialisation of time converted mankind’s tool to overcome nature into an instrument of human oppression

We saw in Part I how the invention of clock time was a key moment in how mankind aspired to free itself from nature’s temporal vicissitudes. We noted that one of the unexpected outcomes of this success was the subordination of mankind to human time. With the coming of the Industrial Revolution itself, as we saw in Part II, the result of the scientific r…