"But industrialization, catalyzed by the spread of the clock-time mentality, swept all that away. **Factories and mills required the coordinated labor of hundreds of people, paid by the hour, and the result was that leisure became sharply delineated from work**. Implicitly, workers were offered a deal: you could do whatever you liked with your time off, so long as it didn’t damage—and preferably enhanced—your usefulness on the job. (So there was a profit motive at play when the upper classes expressed horror at the lower classes’ enthusiasm for drinking gin: coming to work with a hangover, because you’d spent your leisure time getting wasted, was a violation of the deal.)" --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[Industrial Revolution]], [[work-life-balance]], **Source** -- [[202410130434 - B - Four Thousand Weeks]]