Human Motor Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity

Name: Human Motor Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity
Price: 22.49 USD
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ISBN: 9780520078277

ISBN-10: 0520078276

ISBN-13: 9780520078277

Edition: 1992

Authors: Anson Rabinbach

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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.

Book details

List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 1/8/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English