The Bundy clock, invented by Willard Bundy in 1888, revolutionized workplace timekeeping and sparked a broader cultural shift toward mechanized efficiency, surveillance, and moral judgment around punctuality. What began as a solution to unreliable factory timekeeping evolved into a tool o
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