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Title Fabricating modern societies : education, bodies, and minds in the age of steel / edited by Karin Priem and Frederik Herman.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Studies in global social history, 1874-6705 ; volume 37
Studies in global social history. 1874-6705 ; volume 37.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Machines, masses, and metaphors : the visual making of industrial work(ers) in interwar Luxembourg / Ira Plein -- Photography as a space for constructing subjectivities : Luxembourg's steel dynasties and the modern workforce as seen through the glass plate negatives from the Institut Emile Metz / Françoise Poos -- Buddhism, business, and Red-Cross diplomacy : Aline Mayrisch de Saint-Hubert's journeys to East Asia in the interwar period / Klaus Dittrich -- "Sensuous geographies" in the "Age of steel" : educating future workers' bodies in time and space (1900-1940) / Karin Priem and Frederik Herman -- The eye of the machine : labor sciences and the mechanical registration of the human body / Frederik Herman and Karin Priem -- Germs, bodies, and selves : tuberculosis, social government, and the promotion of health-conscious behavior in the early twentieth century / Enric Novella -- Transatlantic iron connections : education, emotion, and the making of a productive workforce in Minas Gerais, Brazil (ca. 1910-1960) / Irma Hadzalic -- Requiem for Gary : cultivating wasteland in and beyond the "Age of steel" / Angelo Van Gorp.
Summary "Fabricating Modern Societies: Education, Bodies, and Minds in the Age of Steel, edited by Karin Priem and Frederik Herman, offers new interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives on the history of industrialization and societal transformation in early twentieth-century Luxembourg. The individual chapters focus on how industrialists addressed a large array of challenges related to industrialization, borrowing and mixing ideas originating in domains such as corporate identity formation, mediatization, scientification, technological innovation, mechanization, capitalism, mass production, medicalization, educationalization, artistic production, and social utopia, while competing with other interest groups who pursued their own goals. The book looks at different focus areas of modernity, and analyzes how humans created, mediated, and interacted with the technospheres of modern societies"-- Provided by publisher.
Local Note JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access
Subject Industrialization -- Social aspects -- Luxembourg -- History -- 19th century.
Industrialization -- Social aspects.
Luxembourg.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Industrialization -- Social aspects -- Luxembourg -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Steel industry and trade -- Luxembourg -- History -- 19th century.
Steel industry and trade.
Steel industry and trade -- Luxembourg -- History -- 20th century.
Social change -- Luxembourg -- History -- 19th century.
Social change.
Social change -- Luxembourg -- History -- 20th century.
Technology and civilization.
Technology and civilization.
Luxembourg -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Social conditions.
Luxembourg -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Priem, Karin, editor.
Herman, Frederik, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Fabricating modern societies Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019] 9789004344235 (DLC) 2019023134
ISBN 9789004410510 (ebook)
9004410511 (ebook)
9789004344235 (hardback)
9004344233 (hardback)