This essay critically engages with intimations of boredom associated with the digitization of contemporary societies. The tyranny of clock time narrative is thus challenged and supported in complex ways that refine our understanding of both clock time and process time. In their efforts to use clock time to regulate fatigue, then, trucking regulators have actually created new kinds of fatigue.
#Simplywork universal clock drivers#
Clock time disrupts the rhythms of the labor process leading to work scenarios that drivers find fatiguing. 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. Process time culture involves its own forms of time discipline that are related to power, exploitation, and overwork in surprising ways. Drivers, meanwhile, are committed to process time in ways that encourage intensification and overwork. I find that trucking regulators use clock time to encourage rest and recovery. This article interrogates this " tyranny of clock time " narrative through an in-depth examination of the fatigue debate in the U.S. 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.
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