The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor (Forms of Living)
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (999 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0823278573 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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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 1945and 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.. 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. Step by stepfrom 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 soc
Among his recent books is The Third Reich Sourcebook. Anson Rabinbach is Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History at Princeton University.
From industrialization to de-industrialization, he traces the rise and fall of three regimes of the biopolitics of labor, corresponding to three ways of analogizing bodies to machines. "Widely regarded as a classic of cultural studies, Anson Rabinbach’s The Human Motor revealed for the first time the importance of the late-19th-century European obsession with the laboring body and its vicissitudes. A must-read for anyone interested in the decline of the 'work-centered society' and the ongoing search for meaningful work." (Deborah Coen Barnard College) . Scholars from many different fields who have drawn on it over the years, as well a