The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity
- Author: Anson Rabinbach
- ISBN 10: 0520078276
- ISBN 13: 9780520078277
- Release: 1992-01-08
- Format: Paperback (432 pages)
- List Price: $24.95
- Tags: History,
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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.
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