{"product_id":"the-human-motor-9780520078277","title":"The Human Motor","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamines how developments in physics, biology, medicine, psychology, politics, and art employed the metaphor of the working body as a human motor. This title demonstrates how the utopian obsession with energy and fatigue shaped social thought across the ideological spectrum.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ACKNOWLEDGMENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e INTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1 From Idleness to Fatigue\u003cbr\u003e The Body Without Fatigue: A Nineteenth-Century Utopia\u003cbr\u003e The Disappearance of Idleness\u003cbr\u003e Aristocratic Idleness\u003cbr\u003e Idleness and Industry\u003cbr\u003e Work and Hygiene\u003cbr\u003e The Discovery of Fatigue\u003cbr\u003e The Poetics of Fatigue\u003cbr\u003e Fatigue and Society\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2 Transcendenltal Materialism: The Primacy of\u003cbr\u003e Arbeitskraft (Labor Power)\u003cbr\u003e An Immense Reservoir of Energy\u003cbr\u003e Dematerialized Materialism\u003cbr\u003e From the Human Machine to the Human Motor\u003cbr\u003e Conservation of Energy\u003cbr\u003e A Universe of Arbeitskraft: Helmholtz's Popular Scientific Lectures\u003cbr\u003e The First Bourgeois Philosopher of Labor Power\u003cbr\u003e Animal Machines\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3 The Political Economy of Labor Power\u003cbr\u003e The Social Implications of Energy Conservation\u003cbr\u003e The Marriage of Marx and Helmholtz\u003cbr\u003e The Social Physiology of Labor Power\u003cbr\u003e The Emergence of Labor Power in Marx\u003cbr\u003e Hegelian Helmholtzianism: Engels\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4 Time and Motion: Etienne-Jules Marey and the\u003cbr\u003e Mechanics of the Body\u003cbr\u003e Marey and Modernism\u003cbr\u003e An Engineer of Life\u003cbr\u003e The Metaphor of the Motor go\u003cbr\u003e Bodies in Motion\u003cbr\u003e The Language of Physiological Time\u003cbr\u003e Motionless Bodies Do Not Exist\u003cbr\u003e Chronophotography: The Microscope of Time\u003cbr\u003e Time and Motion\u003cbr\u003e The Economy of Work\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5 The Laws of the Human Motor\u003cbr\u003e Social Helmholtzianism\u003cbr\u003e Muscular Thermodynamics\u003cbr\u003e Elasticity and Efficiency: Auguste Chauveau\u003cbr\u003e Care and Feeding of the Human Motor\u003cbr\u003e The Laws of Fatigue: Angelo Mosso and the Invention of the Ergograph\u003cbr\u003e The Science of Ergography\u003cbr\u003e A Fatigue Vaccine?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6 Mental Fatigue, Neurasthenia, and Civilization\u003cbr\u003e Mental Fatigue\u003cbr\u003e Pathological Fatigue: Neurasthenia\u003cbr\u003e Materialism, the Will, and the Work Ethic\u003cbr\u003e The Law of the Least Effort: Civilization and Fatigue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7 The European Science of Work\u003cbr\u003e Social Energeticism\u003cbr\u003e Fatigue and the European Science of Work\u003cbr\u003e Arbeitswissenschaft: The Science of Work in Germany\u003cbr\u003e The German Sociology of Work\u003cbr\u003e Industrial Psychotechnics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8 The Science of Work and the Social Question\u003cbr\u003e Between Productivism and Reform\u003cbr\u003e Labor Power: Capital of the Nation\u003cbr\u003e The Personal Productivity of the Worker\u003cbr\u003e Industrial Experiments: Hours and Output\u003cbr\u003e Fatigue and Productivity\u003cbr\u003e The Physiological Limit and the Ten-Hour Day\u003cbr\u003e The Deployment of Social Energy: Military Training and Physical Education\u003cbr\u003e Fatigue, Knowledge, and Industrial Accidents\u003cbr\u003e Science Between the Classes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 9 The Americanization of Labor Power and the Great War 1913--1919\u003cbr\u003e The Challenge of Taylorism\u003cbr\u003e Taylorism in France 1913-1914\u003cbr\u003e Jean-Marie Lahy: The Science of Work Against the Taylor System\u003cbr\u003e German Taylorism and the Science of Work\u003cbr\u003e Psychotechnics and the Great War\u003cbr\u003e The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Labor Physiology at War\u003cbr\u003e Ergonomics at the Front\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1O The Science of Work Between the Wars\u003cbr\u003e Productivism Between the Wars\u003cbr\u003e The Rapprochement Between the Science of Work and Taylorism\u003cbr\u003e The Institutionalization of the Science of Work\u003cbr\u003e The Era of Psychotechnics\u003cbr\u003e Industrial Psychology and the Pathology of Work\u003cbr\u003e Social Politics in the Plant and the Romantic Philosophy of Work\u003cbr\u003e The National Socialist Science of Work: DINTA and Beauty of Labor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: The End of the Work-centered Society?\u003cbr\u003e The Legacy of the Human Motor\u003cbr\u003e The Obsolescence of the Body\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e NOTES\u003cbr\u003e INDEX","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402796114263,"sku":"9780520078277","price":29.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-human-motor-9780520078277","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}