In the 1960s, william chambliss analyzed the development of vagrancy laws in england, chambliss argued that the laws were designed for one express purpose--to:

The correct answer is: to provide ruling elites with low-cost quasi-slave labor.

William Chambliss (1933-2014) published the article, “A Sociological Analysis of the Laws of Vagrancy” (1964).

Based on Marx’s analysis, of the 14th through 16th-century English vagrancy laws, which had classified peasants made landless under the enclosure movement as vagrants, Chambliss argued that those laws were enacted by ruling elites throughout history to provide themselves with low-cost quasi-slave labor.

answer: the time zones used to be whatever the local authority wanted them to be. one town might have 6am whenever the sun came up and another town had 6am 10 minutes later.  

the trains had a hard time when their orders said to be at a certain point at 6am.  

6am, but who's 6am.  

the railroads got together and set the time zones more or less along the longitude lines across the country.

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