Fall Asleep as a Factory Timekeeper During the Great Depression

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Tonight, you arrive before dawn at a factory during the Great Depression, where hundreds of workers pass beneath a clock that quietly determines their wages, their schedules, and sometimes their ability to feed their families.

As the factory timekeeper, you do not operate the machines or supervise the workers. Instead, you record arrivals, departures, overtime, and lateness while watching the lives of ordinary people become rows of figures inside ledgers and payroll books.

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