100 Objects #15: Bundy Clock

99% Invisible by SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

Aug 28, 202600:37:41Arts

How the time clock not only ignited a revolution in workplace efficiency and surveillance, but transformed our relationship to time itself.

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