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The outstanding moral problem of our time is the emergence of an underclass, provoking both pity and an angry political backlash. Robin Marris finds that a slowdown in growth is the root cause, leading to a collapse of the labour market for unskilled men in particular. Fashionab…
Most countries implement social protection programs to help individuals manage risks such as unemployment, disability, illness, longevity or death. In many middle income countries, these are often based on a 'Bismarckian model' (named after Otto von Bismarck), where benefits are…
1. Prologue -- 2. Changing contexts : the growing demand for transnational human capital and the middle and upper class quest for distinction -- 3. Social background makes all the difference : types of capital, class position and chances for acquiring transnational human capital…
Due to globalization processes, foreign language skills, knowledge about other countries and intercultural competences have increasingly become important for societies and people's social positions. Previous research on social inequality, however, has dominantly focused on the r…
From mimetic machines to digital organisms -- Social energeticism in fin-de-siècle Europe -- Social knowledge and the politics of industrial accidents -- Neurasthenia and modernity -- Psychotechnics and politics in Weimar Germany -- The aesthetics of production in the Third Reic…
The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor traces 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 Digesting Duck, through Karl Marx's Capital, Hermann von Helmhol…
The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor
by Project Muse, Rabinbach, Anson
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The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor brings together a series of essays bridging intellectual history and the history of the body tracing the shift from the eighteenth-century concept of man as machine to the late twentieth-century concept of digital organisms. The book looks at …