How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Section.Paragraph) or (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
These 'small thefts' of capital from the workers' meal-times and recreation times are also described by the factory inspectors as 'petty pilferings of minutes', 'snatching a few minutes' or, in the technical language of the workers, 'nibbling and cribbling at meal-times'. (10.2.14)
The point of this passage is to illustrate how capitalists tried to steal workers' meal and break times. But we're not sure why nibbling and cribbling is technical language.
Quote #5
Moments are the elements of profit. (10.2.15)
Capitalists must seek to make every moment more efficient and profitable, Marx argues, since they must not lose out to their competitors. How are different professions affected by the need to race against the clock? Consider doctors interacting with patients, for example.
Quote #6
In this connection, nothing is more characteristic than the designation of the workers who work full time as 'full-timers', and the children under 13 who are only allowed to work six hours as 'half-timers'. The worker is here nothing more than personified labour-time. All individual distinctions are obliterated in that between 'full-timers' and 'half-timers'. (10.2.16)
When we refer to people as part-timers or full-timers, something as abstract and invisible as time has become their identity.