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The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity
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.
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
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publish Date: Jan 8th, 1992
- Pages: 432
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.22in - 6.12in - 1.15in - 1.37lb
- EAN: 9780520078277
- Categories: • Labor & Industrial Relations• Economic History• Social History
About the Author
Anson Rabinbach is Professor in the Department of the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University and author of The Crisis of Austrian Socialism (Chicago, 1983).
Praise for this book
"Rabinbach has performed a major feat of historical reconstruction. "The Human Motor is a skillful and theoretically informed synthesis of social and intellectual history."--Jackson Lears, "The New Republic