In pre-industrial times, your work schedule was pretty simple: You started work when it was bright enough to see, and quit for the day when it was too dark to see. The invention of railroads hastened the uptake of clocks and watches, as trains needed to leave at times more precise than dawn, noon or sunset. Clocks were important at factories, too, which had rigid (and often punishing) schedules. But with some factories employing hundreds or thousands of workers, how could a manager expect...
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