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Author Bänziger, Peter-Paul

Title Histories of Productivity : Genealogical Perspectives on the Body and Modern Economy
Published Milton : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (210 pages)
Series Routledge Studies in Modern History
Routledge studies in modern history.
Contents 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 Century6 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-1970s10 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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Form Electronic book
Author Suter, Mischa
ISBN 9781315522760
1315522764