Performance Anxiety : Sport and Work in Germany from the Empire to Nazism / Michael Hau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hau, Michael, author.

Series:

German and European studies ; 25.

German and European Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports--Social aspects--Germany--History--20th century.

Sports.

Sports--Political aspects--Germany--History--20th century.

Germany.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (383 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"Performance Anxiety analyses the efforts of German elites, from 1890 to 1945, to raise the productivity and psychological performance of workers through the promotion of mass sports. Michael Hau reveals how politicians, sports officials, medical professionals, and business leaders, articulated a vision of a human economy that was coopted in 1933 by Nazi officials in order to promote competition in the workplace. Hau's original and startling study is the first to establish how Nazi leaders' discourse about sports and performance was used to support their claims that Germany was on its way to becoming a true meritocracy. Performance Anxiety is essential reading for political, social, and sports historians alike."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Wehrkraft and Volkskraft : the "human economy" and performance enhancement during the Empire

Conditioning bodies and minds during the Weimar Republic

Conditioning people's comrades

The Olympics of labour : the Reich vocational competitions, 1934-1939

The performance community at war

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Aug 2018)

ISBN:

1-4426-3064-7

1-4426-3063-9

OCLC:

1054872432