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Tables of Contents for The Human Motor
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction
1
18
From Idleness to Fatigue
19
26
The Body Without Fatigue: A Nineteenth-Century Utopia
19
6
The Disappearance of Idleness
25
2
Aristocratic Idleness
27
1
Idleness and Industry
28
7
Work and Hygiene
35
3
The Discovery of Fatigue
38
2
The Poetics of Fatigue
40
2
Fatigue and Society
42
3
Transcendental Materialism: The Primacy of Arbeitskraft (Labor Power)
45
24
An Immense Reservoir of Energy
45
3
Dematerialized Materialism
48
3
From the Human Machine to the Human Motor
51
1
Conservation of Energy
52
4
A Universe of Arbeitskraft: Helmholtz's Popular Scientific Lectures
56
5
The First Bourgeois Philosopher of Labor Power
61
3
Animal Machines
64
5
The Political Economy of Labor Power
69
15
The Social Implications of Energy Conservation
69
3
The Marriage of Marx and Helmholtz
72
2
The Social Physiology of Labor Power
74
2
The Emergence of Labor Power in Marx
76
5
Hegelian Helmholtzianism: Engels
81
3
Time and Motion: Etienne-Jules Marey and the Mechanics of the Body
84
36
Marey and Modernism
84
4
An Engineer of Life
88
2
The Metaphor of the Motor
90
2
Bodies in Motion
92
1
The Language of Physiological Time
93
4
Motionless Bodies Do Not Exist
97
7
Chronophotography: The Microscope of Time
104
4
Time and Motion
108
7
The Economy of Work
115
5
The Laws of the Human Motor
120
26
Social Helmholtzianism
120
4
Muscular Thermodynamics
124
3
Elasticity and Efficiency: Auguste Chauveau
127
1
Care and Feeding of the Human Motor
128
5
The Laws of Fatigue: Angelo Mosso and the Invention of the Ergograph
133
3
The Science of Ergography
136
6
A Fatigue Vaccine?
142
4
Mental Fatigue, Neurasthenia, and Civilization
146
33
Mental Fatigue
146
7
Pathological Fatigue: Neurasthenia
153
10
Materialism, the Will, and the Work Ethic
163
9
The Law of the Least Effort: Civilization and Fatigue
172
7
The European Science of Work
179
27
Social Energeticism
179
3
Fatigue and the European Science of Work
182
7
Arbeitswissenschaft: The Science of Work in Germany
189
6
The German Sociology of Work
195
7
Industrial Psychotechnics
202
4
The Science of Work and the Social Question
206
32
Between Productivism and Reform
206
2
Labor Power: Capital of the Nation
208
2
The Personal Productivity of the Worker
210
7
Industrial Experiments: Hours and Output
217
2
Fatigue and Productivity
219
1
The Physiological Limit and the Ten-Hour Day
220
4
The Deployment of Social Energy: Military Training and Physical Education
224
4
Fatigue, Knowledge, and Industrial Accidents
228
6
Science Between the Classes
234
4
The Americanization of Labor Power and the Great War 1913-1919
238
33
The Challenge of Taylorism
238
6
Taylorism in France 1913-1914
244
5
Jean-Marie Lahy: The Science of Work Against the Taylor System
249
4
German Taylorism and the Science of Work
253
6
Psychotechnics and the Great War
259
3
The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Labor Physiology at War
262
3
Ergonomics at the Front
265
6
The Science of Work Between the Wars
271
18
Productivism Between the Wars
271
2
The Rapprochement Between the Science of Work and Taylorism
273
2
The Institutionalization of the Science of Work
275
3
The Era of Psychotechnics
278
2
Industrial Psychology and the Pathology of Work
280
2
Social Politics in the Plant and the Romantic Philosophy of Work
282
2
The National Socialist Science of Work: DINTA and Beauty of Labor
284
5
Conclusion: The End of the Work-centered Society?
289
12
The Legacy of the Human Motor
292
3
The Obsolescence of the Body
295
6
Notes
301
84
Index
385