Histories of Productivity: Genealogical Perspectives on the Body and Modern Economy (Routledge Studies in Modern History)

Synopsis

Global issues such as climate change and the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis have spurred interest in thinking about the history of the modern economy that goes beyond disciplinary economic history. This book contributes to the cultural history of capitalism and its different regimes of productivity by pursuing the perspective of body history and by providing a global scope. Throughout modernity, the body served as a fundamental, albeit essentially changing, linchpin for both the organization of economic practices and for intellectual reflections on the economy. In particular, it was the pivotal interface to render notions of economic productivity intelligible. The book explores this central thesis in a range of case studies, drawing on source material from West Africa, Europe, Mexico, and the US. Framed by a theoretically informed introduction, which also provides a conceptual history of notions of productivity, and by an afterword that brings the approaches explored in this volume into dialogue with scholarship inspired by Marx and Foucault, the individual chapters tackle the concept of productivity from a wide array of angles, each illuminating the promises and problems of a cultural take on the history of economic productivity.

Copyright:

2017

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

201 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781315522760

Related ISBNs:

9781315522777, 9781138696983, 9781138696983, 9781138329515, 9781138329515, 9781138696983, 9781315522777, 9781138329515

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

02/25/20

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N/A

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Social Studies

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Mischa Suter

Edited by:

Peter-Paul Banziger