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Health and Efficiency : Fatigue, the Science of Work, and the Making of the Working-Class Body / Steffan Blayney.
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EBSCOhost eBook Community College Collection- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blayney, Steffan, author.
- Series:
- Activist studies of science and technology.
- Activist Studies of Science and Technology Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fatigue--Great Britain--History.
- Labor productivity--Great Britain--History.
- Industrial hygiene--Great Britain--History.
- Work--Psychological aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (262 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "A new model of health emerged in Britain between 1870 and 1939. Centered on the working body, organized around the concept of efficiency, and grounded in scientific understandings of human labor, scientists, politicians, and capitalists of the era believed that national economic productivity could be maximized by transforming the body of the worker into a machine. At the core of this approach was the conviction that worker productivity was intimately connected to worker health. Under this new "science of work," fatigue was seen as the ultimate pathology of the working-class body, reducing workers' capacity to perform continued physical or mental labor. As Steffan Blayney shows, the equation between health and efficiency did not go unchallenged. While biomedical and psychological experts sought to render the body measurable, governable, and intelligible, ordinary men and women found ways to resist the logics of productivity and efficiency imposed on them, and to articulate alternative perspectives on work, health, and the body"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The discovery of fatigue
- Industrial physiology and the productive body
- Industrial psychology and the human factor
- The market in efficiency
- The worker's voice.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Blayney, Steffan Health and Efficiency
- ISBN:
- 9781613769270
- 161376927X
- OCLC:
- 1328136665
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