On the one hand, these developments might seem to imply a slowing down of historical “progress,” measured in terms of technical development. But this slowing down finds itself matched by a speeding up. As it becomes difficult to extract increased profits from investment in labor-saving technology, capitalists turn instead to nontechnological means of increasing surpluses: sweating and intensifying labor, decreasing pockets of rest and downtime (the so-called pores in the workday), extending work hours, and finding ways of getting workers to do unpaid work off the job. Thus, we return, by a long and circuitous route, to the harried and frenetic temporality of Memory, which we are now prepared to think of as strongly homological with the actual state of capital and labor in the early 1970s, when the vigorous good health of the postwar economy gave way to a crisis of profitability (visible first as inflation) described persuasively by several writers as conforming, more or less, to Marx’s account of capitalist crisis.66 This intensification was felt on both sides of the double day, in the workplace and in the home, as people worked more for less money and, as a result, were forced to compensate for reductions in household spending with an increase in housework.