ISBN:
9781315522760
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (210 pages)
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Modern History
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Modern History Ser
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Bänziger, Peter-Paul Histories of Productivity : Genealogical Perspectives on the Body and Modern Economy
DDC:
306.309
Keywords:
Labor productivity--Social aspects
Abstract:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Histories of Productivity: An Introduction -- Part I Capitalism and Its Emerging Regimes of Productivity: Introduction to Part I -- 2 Transgressing Static Concepts: Population, Economy, and Growth in Early Modern Bioeconomics -- 3 African Women and the "Lazy African" Myth in Nineteenth-Century West Africa -- 4 Saving the Supply and Making People Work: Sustainability, Labor, and Control of Production in the Rubber Trade of Southeast Cameroon, 1899-1903 -- 5 Useful Knowledge: The Monetary Education of Children and the Moralization of Productivity in the Nineteenth Century -- 6 The Contested Productivity of the Baker's Body: Technology, Industrialization, and Labor in Nineteenth-Century France -- Part II Transformations of Twentieth-Century Productivism: Introduction to Part II -- 7 Feeding Productive Bodies: Calories, Nutritional Values, and Ability in the Progressive-Era US -- 8 Regaining Sufficiency: Work Therapy in 1930s German Internal Medicine -- 9 Tracing the Developmentalist Regime of Productivity: Nation, Urban Space, and Workers' Habitat in Mexico City, 1940s-1970s -- 10 Waste or Motivation? The Productivity Discourse between Past and Future in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century -- 11 Afterword: Histories of Productivity and Modes of Production -- Contributors -- Index.
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