The tyranny of clock time? Debating fatigue in the US truck driving industry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4356413 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Benjamin H Snyder (0000-0002-9069-4418, Victoria University of Wellington, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 697-720 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Time & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-463X • E-ISSN: 1461-7463 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0961463x17701955 |
| OpenAlex | W2608215869 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 36 |
Social theorists frequently claim that clock time-a cold, mechanical, and intensifying culture of time reckoning-has the tendency to dominate "process time"-a warm, humane, and leisurely culture of time-reckoning. This article interrogates this "tyranny of clock time" narrative through an in-depth examination of the fatigue debate in the US truck driving industry. I find that trucking regulators use clock time to encourage rest and recovery. Drivers, meanwhile, are committed to process time in ways that encourage intensification and overwork. Process time culture involves its own forms of time discipline that are related to power, exploitation, and overwork in surprising ways. Yet even though the normative ends of the two time orientations are reversed in this case, I still find that clock time is tyrannical in a certain limited sense. Clock time disrupts the rhythms of the labor process leading to work scenarios that drivers find fatiguing. In their efforts to use clock time to regulate fatigue, then, trucking regulators have actually created new kinds of fatigue. The tyranny of clock time narrative is thus challenged and supported in ways that refine our understanding of both clock time and process time
Clock synchronization · Economics · Labour economics · Lawmaking · Narrative · Normative · Overwork · Political science · Process (computing · Synchronization (alternating current · Telecommunications · Timing failure · Work time · Computer Science · Engineering · Law · Night-time city culture · Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |