Time, Capitalism and Alienation

Jonathan Martineau, Ph.D. (2012), York University, currently teaches at Concordia University and at Université du Québec à Montréal. He has published Marxisme anglo-saxon. Figures contemporaines (Montréal, Lux, 2013), as well as many articles and translations.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionCHAPTER 1: THEORY, METHOD, TIMEA) Alienation, reification, method and timeB) Time in the social sciences: ‘Social time’C) Norbert Elias, Barbara Adam and time studies: Towards a concept of social timeCHAPTER 2: THE ORIGIN OF CLOCK-TIME, AND THE ORIGIN OF CAPITALISMA) The innovation of the clock: clock-time, wage-labour and commerce in contextB) The transition from feudalism to capitalismC) The clock-time infrastructureD) Newton’s timeE) Remarks on pre-capitalist social time relationsCHAPTER 3: CAPITALIST SOCIAL TIME RELATIONSA) Clock-time in the capitalist contextB) Value formation, appropriation, and abstract timeC) Labour-market, capitalist industrialisation and clock-time D) World Standard TimeE) Alienated time and reified timeF) The temporal forms of domination and resistanceConclusionBibliographyIndex