Socialist History seminar to look at new research on E P Thompson’s Time Work Discipline
E P Thompson’s essay on Time Work Discipline was published in Past and Present in December 1967. Since then it has become one of his most widely read and quoted pieces of research, spawning a range of articles and influencing books on the subject of historical time.
Dr Mark Hallwood will present some new research to the London Socialist Historians seminar on Monday 9th November which challenges aspects of Thompson’s argument that pre-industrial workers had little concept of regulated working time. This has interesting wider implications both historically and in the present day where working time and the working days
Nov 9th 17.30hrs Mark Hallwood, ‘Between 5 and 6 of the clock’: Time-telling, Time-use and Time-discipline in Pre-industrial England’
This meeting will be on-line via Zoom. To register and get secure log-in details please click on the link below
Dr Mark Hallwood research profile
https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/mark-hailwood
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