{"product_id":"the-eclipse-of-the-utopias-of-labor-9780823278572","title":"The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Anson Rabinbach\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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.","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46473833676951,"sku":"9780823278572","price":3968.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780823278572.jpg?v=1766264053","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-eclipse-of-the-utopias-of-labor-9780823278572","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}