The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity
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Book details
- Author
- Anson Rabinbach
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- Labor & Industrial Relations
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780520078277
- ISBN-10
- 0520078276
- Vendor: Mia Karts
The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity
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ISBN: 0520078276
Author: Anson Rabinbach
Condition: New
Science once had an unshakable faith in its ability to bring the forces of nature-even human nature-under control. In this wide-ranging book Anson Rabinbach examines how developments in physics, biology, medicine, psychology, politics, and art employed the metaphor of the working body as a human motor.From nineteenth-century theories of thermodynamics and political economy to the twentieth-century ideals of Taylorism and Fordism, Rabinbach demonstrates how the utopian obsession with energy and fatigue shaped social thought across the ideological spectrum.
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