The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity"Masterfully integrating Europe-wide debates in science, philosophy, technology, economics, and social policy, Rabinbach has provided us with a profoundly original understanding of the productivist obsessions from which we are still painfully freeing ourselves. . . . A splendid example of the mutual enrichment of intellectual and social history. It goes well beyond its central concern with the 'science of work' to illuminate everything it discusses, from Marxism to the social uses of photography, from cultural decadence to the impact of the First World War."—Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley |
Contents
The Primacy | 45 |
The Political Economy of Labor Power 69 CONT | 69 |
EtienneJules Marey and | 84 |
xi | 101 |
E J Marey Portable Odograph and cart ca 1887 | 116 |
The Laws of the Human Motor | 120 |
35 | 128 |
Mental Fatigue Neurasthenia and Civilization 146 55 | 146 |
Science Between the Classes | 228 |
Taylorism in France 19131914 | 244 |
German Taylorism and the Science of Work | 253 |
Psychotechnics and the Great | 259 |
Ergonomics at the Front | 265 |
The Science of Work Between the Wars | 271 |
The End of the Workcentered Society? | 289 |
NOTES | 301 |
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