<p>Science once had an unshakable faith in its ability to bring the forces of nature―even human nature―under control. In this wide-ranging book Anson Rabinbach examines how developments in physics, biology, medicine, psychology, politics, and art employed the metaphor of the working body as a human motor.<br><br>From nineteenth-century theories of thermodynamics and political economy to the twentieth-century ideals of Taylorism and Fordism, Rabinbach demonstrates how the utopian obsession with energy and fatigue shaped social thought across the ideological spectrum.</p>

The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity

Anson Rabinbach

History

University of California Press

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The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity