# E. P. Thompson **Domain:** History / Labor **Doc Type:** Person **Maturity:** Developed **Related:** [[Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism]], [[Time-Oriented Labor]], [[Task-Oriented Time]], [[Schedule and Loop]] ## Definition E. P. Thompson was a historian whose work traced the transition from task-oriented labor to clock-governed industrial work discipline. ## Schedule–Loop Context He supplies the historical bridge through which schedule becomes material infrastructure: time is abstracted, standardized, measured and purchased from the worker. ## Backlinks - [[Schedule and Loop]] - [[articles/Schedule and Loop|Schedule and Loop]] - [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]]