Blondé, Bruno (Author)
Verhoeven, Gerrit (Author)
Continuity and Change
Volume: 28
Pages: 213--244
Publication date: 2013
Language: English
Traditionally a large role has been attributed to the spread of clocks and watches in fostering a `modern' awareness of time. Yet, little research is available that empirically enables signs of growing time awareness to be linked to the distribution of time-keeping devices. In this article both these phenomena are brought together using two independent sets of evidence that permit the hypothesis that clocks and watches contributed to a heightened consciousness of time to be tested. While the ownership of clocks and watches was socially skewed, highly gendered and unevenly distributed over time, time awareness -- as exemplified throughout numerous court cases -- was essentially none of these.
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