ABSTRACT
Much scholarship on work has focused on questions of pace and time discipline. A contrast that has often been made between the extreme discipline of the assembly line and the relaxation of work in non-market societies exaggerates the difference between modern and premodern times and between commercialized and less commercialized societies. By looking at pace through the lens of sociology, we can add texture and detail to portrayals of the work experience in any place-time, and center workers as subjects. We can also reconsider how the experience of working as a group might affect both production and experience positively or negatively.
