The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor
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The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor

  1. 232 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor

About this book

The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor traces the shift from the eighteenth-century concept of man as machine to the late twentieth-century notion of digital organisms. Step by step—from Jacques de Vaucanson and his Digesting Duck, through Karl Marx's Capital, Hermann von Helmholtz's social thermodynamics, Albert Speer's Beauty of Labor program in Nazi Germany, and on to the post-Fordist workplace, Rabinbach shows how society, the body, and labor utopias dreamt up future societies and worked to bring them about. This masterful follow-up to The Human Motor, Rabinbach's brilliant study of the European science of work, bridges intellectual history, labor history, and the history of the body. It shows the intellectual and policy reasons as to how a utopia of the body as motor won wide acceptance and moved beyond the "man as machine" model before tracing its steep decline after 1945—and along with it the eclipse of the great hopes that a more efficient workplace could provide the basis of a new, more socially satisfactory society.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Announcement Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Half Title
  9. 1. From Mimetic Machines to Digital Organisms
  10. 2. Social Energeticism in Fin-de-Siècle Europe
  11. 3. Social Knowledge and the Politics of Industrial Accidents
  12. 4. Neurasthenia and Modernity
  13. 5. Psychotechnics and Politics in Weimar Germany
  14. 6. The Aesthetics of Production in the Third Reich
  15. 7. Metaphors of the Machine in the Post-Fordist Era
  16. Notes
  17. Index
  18. Series Page