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Conflicted: A History Podcast
The Industrial Revolution Changed Our Relationship With Time
The industrial revolution fundamentally changed our relationship with work, but not in the way that we hoped or expected. The biggest casualty of the change was time, specifically free time. In Europe, the church calendar marked as many as 156 holidays before the reformation. Modern work discipline began with the systematic elimination of non-productive uses of time.
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