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The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity - Rabinbach, Anson
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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 ...

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The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity 1992, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

ISBN-13: 9780520078277

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