“Clock time which was once a convenience became a commercial necessity with age of the factory. The natural rhythms of time to which the human organism responds by his very nature are not suited to the inexorable rhythms of the machine. The owners of the factory found it expedient to deride these natural rhythms by imposing the regular clock time on its employees the imposition of click over natural time was done quite deliberately and as historians have documented often with the surprising degree if perceptiveness quite consciously as a means of breaking the will of the workforce. We still see the bizarre ritual of giving a click to someone when he retires, at the very moment when he no linger needs it. It is as if a freed slave were to be given his shackles as a souvenir.”
John Frawley