Clock towers are way older than the industrial revolution and also occurred in quite a few different societies, so probably not as a general rule. There are a couple in England and France (Salisbury and Beauvais cathedrals) that are 700 years old, and if you include non-mechanical-clock timekeeping devices like sundials and water clocks then you can go back even further. I could imagine that it’s quite possible that there was at least one instance where this was caught and people arranged for some kind of separate public clock, though
I’ve finally came around to watching it and, oh boy, it is not good :-/ From the beginnig that are loaded statements about stone age people and their working habbits. I suggest reading Lars Svenden’s “Work”. I don’t think it mentions clocks, but goes into the details of how work and worker rights have evolved from anciemt times. A short, 100-ish page book that gives you all the neccessary basics.
Was this the impetus for the town clock?
Clock towers are way older than the industrial revolution and also occurred in quite a few different societies, so probably not as a general rule. There are a couple in England and France (Salisbury and Beauvais cathedrals) that are 700 years old, and if you include non-mechanical-clock timekeeping devices like sundials and water clocks then you can go back even further. I could imagine that it’s quite possible that there was at least one instance where this was caught and people arranged for some kind of separate public clock, though
To add, I believe that town clocks probably also played a continuation of the church bells used to communicate the time to the village/town.
One of the main reasons Church bells and clock bells were so loud was to communicate to the area the current time.
Control.
Cool youtube video describing capitalists controlling clocks to make laborers work for longer hours.
I’ve finally came around to watching it and, oh boy, it is not good :-/ From the beginnig that are loaded statements about stone age people and their working habbits. I suggest reading Lars Svenden’s “Work”. I don’t think it mentions clocks, but goes into the details of how work and worker rights have evolved from anciemt times. A short, 100-ish page book that gives you all the neccessary basics.
Thanks for the recommendation, just downloaded it and I’m going to read it at work hahahaha.