{"product_id":"the-eclipse-of-the-utopias-anson-rabinbach-9780823278565","title":"The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor \u003c\/i\u003etraces the shift from the eighteenth-century concept of man as machine to the late twentieth-century notion of digital organisms. Step by step--from Jacques de Vaucanson and his \u003ci\u003eDigesting Duck\u003c\/i\u003e, through Karl Marx's \u003ci\u003eCapital\u003c\/i\u003e, Hermann von Helmholtz's social thermodynamics, Albert Speer's Beauty of Labor program in Nazi Germany, and on to the post-Fordist workplace, Rabinbach shows how society, the body, and labor utopias dreamt up future societies and worked to bring them about. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis masterful follow-up to \u003ci\u003eThe Human Motor\u003c\/i\u003e, Rabinbach's brilliant study of the European science of work, bridges intellectual history, labor history, and the history of the body. It shows the intellectual and policy reasons as to how a utopia of the body as motor won wide acceptance and moved beyond the \"man as machine\" model before tracing its steep decline after 1945--and along with it the eclipse of the great hopes that a more efficient workplace could provide the basis of a new, more socially satisfactory society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anson Rabinbach\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823278565\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823278565\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/06\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2018","brand":"Anson Rabinbach","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47419116585215,"sku":"9780823278565","price":105.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_331e6360-0093-4ca3-a800-b9abec3d677b.jpg?v=1761509549","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-eclipse-of-the-utopias-anson-rabinbach-9780823278565","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}