The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity
by Anson Rabinbach
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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 show more energy and fatigue shaped social thought across the ideological spectrum. show lessTags
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Anson Rabinbach is Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History at Princeton University. Among his recent books is The Third Reich Sourcebook.
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