Health and Efficiency : Fatigue, the Science of Work, and the Making of the Working-Class Body /

"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 c...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Blayney, Steffan (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2022]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Work > Psychological aspects.
Work > Physiological aspects.
Labor productivity.
Industrial hygiene.
Fatigue.
Fatigue > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Travail > Aspect psychologique.
Travail > Aspect physiologique.
Productivite > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Industrial hygiene > Great Britain > History.
Labor productivity > Great Britain > History.
Fatigue > Great Britain > History.
Great Britain.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • The discovery of fatigue
  • Industrial physiology and the productive body
  • Industrial psychology and the human factor
  • The market in efficiency
  • The worker's voice.

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