The Struggle for Control over Identities – Education, History and Local Communities in Scandinavia: Henrik Zipsane

A classic example used in many school books to illustrate how industrialisation changed the way of life in the second half of the 19^th century is the need for fixing time on local, national and international level. It was a precondition for knowing when a train would arrive and depart. But another impact of fixing the time according to the clock was that employees knew when to meet and when to leave their workplace and workers and employers alike could measure salary related to work hours.

Fixing a standard time measure had different aspects at the same time and in the same way the different aspects of construction, deconstruction and reconstruction of identities has been a determining factor in implementing modernity.

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