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Author Rabinbach, Anson, author.

Title The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor [electronic resource] / Anson Rabinbach.

Imprint New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2018. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource (pages cm.)
Series Forms of living
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents From mimetic machines to digital organisms -- Social energeticism in fin-de-siecle Europe -- Social knowledge and the politics of industrial accidents -- Neurasthenia and modernity -- Psychotechnics and politics in Weimar Germany -- The aesthetics of production in the Third Reich -- Metaphors of the machine in the post-Fordist era.
Summary The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor brings together a series of essays bridging intellectual history and the history of the body tracing the shift from the eighteenth-century concept of man as machine to the late twentieth-century concept of digital organisms. The book looks at the rise and decline of ""the great utopias of labor"" in the first half of the twentieth century.
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Subject Robots.
Human mechanics.
Human-computer interaction.
Labor supply.
Labor market.
Labor demand.
Employment (Economic theory)
employing.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor.
Labor market
Labor demand
Human-computer interaction
Human mechanics
Labor supply
Robots
Indexed Term Fordism.
Marxism.
National Socialism.
Taylorism.
automata.
digital/digitization.
energy.
human body.
industrial accidents.
mechanism.
metaphorology.
neurasthenia.
utopia.
work.
Added Author Project Muse.
ISBN 9780823278596 (electronic bk.)
082327859X (electronic bk.)
9780823278565 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780823278572 (pbk : alk. paper)

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