Union protections gave workers control over time that capital previously dictated

Evidence

Before the unions, the longshoremen’s experience of time was completely beholden to the ups and downs of capital. While the 1932 law enabled union organizing, the tides had already begun to turn against organized labor with the 1947 Taft–Hartley Act, which among other things prohibited the coordination of strike efforts among different unions. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 309

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes time as the contested resource — capital owns workers’ time before unions intervene.
• XREF: connects to: Capital absorbed workers’ own desire to escape Fordist routine, trapping the left — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1405