Time, capitalism, and alienation: social time relations, clock-time and the making of world standard time
| dc.contributor.advisor | McNally, David | |
| dc.creator | Martineau, Jonathan | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-09-13T13:13:59Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-09-13T13:13:59Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2012-05 | |
| dc.degree.discipline | Political Science | |
| dc.degree.level | Doctoral | |
| dc.degree.name | PhD - Doctor of Philosophy | |
| dc.description.abstract | This dissertation enquires into the relationship between time and capitalism. In order to understand the nature of social time in capitalist societies, I perform a historical contextualization of the origins of clocks and clock-time, as well as the origins of capitalism. I situate the origins of clock and clock-time in feudal social time relations and practices of commerce and pre-capitalist wage-labour. I assess the historical development of clock-time, the formation of a temporal infrastructure of clock-time in England, and the transition from feudalism to capitalism through the transitional phase of agrarian capitalism in the English countryside. I then go on to enquire in the relationship between clock-time and capitalist processes of value formation and analyze the rise to social hegemony of clock-time in the form of World Standard Time. I forge a concept of capitalist social time relations as a struggling entity comprising abstract time and concrete social, natural and human times, and enquire into instances of social struggles which I read as temporal struggles. Finally, I enquire into the history of philosophies of time in the West, and I socio-historically contextualize the conceptions of time of Aristotle, Augustine, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger and Henri Bergson. I end by drawing theoretical conclusion from my study of social time for disciplines in the social sciences. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10315/31940 | |
| dc.rights | Author owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests. | |
| dc.subject.keywords | Time | |
| dc.subject.keywords | Capitalism | |
| dc.subject.keywords | Social time | |
| dc.subject.keywords | Clocks | |
| dc.subject.keywords | Clock-time | |
| dc.title | Time, capitalism, and alienation: social time relations, clock-time and the making of world standard time | |
| dc.type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
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