by Bodil Johnsson
No time for this, no time for that? This book can help! Bodil Jonsson observes how in the Western world the arrival of measured, accurate timekeeping became first our tool, and then our master. The wives of labourers rebelled when first told their husbands would be paid in money, for their time, rather than the older custom of payment in kind for a job of work done. They felt that the equation Time = Money was...
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