19th century political economy
19th century science
20th century america
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european scientists
first world war
fordism
history of medicine
history of science
history of technology
human nature
idleness
industrial revolution
labor and industrial relations
marxism
nature of energy
physics history
physiologists
political philosophy
productivism
science and economics
science and philosophy
science and technology
science of work
scientific materialism
social and intellectual history
social policy
socialism
sociology of science
taylorism
thermodynamics
unproductive labor
work centered society
work physiologists
worker productivity
worktime
Product details
- ISBN 9780520078277
- Weight: 635g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 08 Jan 1992
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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).
