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Project

Time Thrift? Measuring the impact of the Industrial revolution on time awareness in Belgium (1830-1914).

How did the Industrial Revolution reshape everyday time use and consciousness in the long nineteenth century? Even though this question has unleashed some heated debates in the last decades, conclusive emipirical evidence is still largely missing. In this project we tap the potential of police reports (the procès-verbaux) in three Belgian cities (Antwerp, Ghent, and Liège) to trace some long-term developments in time awareness/management and to tease out the (hypothetical) relation with the Industrial Revolution.
Date:1 Apr 2018 →  31 Mar 2019
Keywords:TIME MANAGEMENT, TIME ALLOCATION
Disciplines:Curatorial and related studies, History, Other history and archaeology, Art studies and sciences, Artistic design, Audiovisual art and digital media, Heritage, Music, Theatre and performance, Visual arts, Other arts, Product development, Study of regions