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Title:
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THE HUMAN MOTOR
ENERGY, FATIGUE AND THE ORIGINS OF MODERNITY |
By: |
Anson Rabinbach |
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Paperback |
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£31.00 |
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£24.80 |
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ISBN 10: |
0520078276 |
ISBN 13: |
9780520078277 |
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Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS |
Pub. date: |
8 January, 1992 |
Pages: |
432 |
Description: |
Examines how developments in physics, biology, medicine, psychology, politics, and art employed the metaphor of the working body as a human motor. This title demonstrates how the utopian obsession with energy and fatigue shaped social thought across the ideological spectrum. |
Synopsis: |
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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26 b&w illustrations |
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US |
Imprint: |
University of California Press |
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