When Time Changed

The cultivation of labour in the 14^th Century spawned a fundamental change in the measurement of time which was indeed a change in time itself.

Symbolized by clock and bell which called worker to labour and merchant to markets, separated by previous natural  rhythms, a sort of chronological net was set in which rural  life was caught.  This net was  created by the merchant and its masters.

The long historical passage to the domination of this new sense of time was partly a matter of technology dues to the introduction of cheap time pieces an of gas and electric lighting to overcome the constraint of the natural working day this happened most spectacularly at the end of the 19^th century.