TY  - BOOK
AU  - Priem,Karin
AU  - Herman,Frederik
TI  - Fabricating modern societies: education, bodies, and minds in the age of steel 
T2  - Studies in global social history,
SN  - 9789004410510
AV  - HC330 
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Industrialization
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Luxembourg
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Steel industry and trade
KW  - Social change
KW  - Technology and civilization
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machines, masses, and metaphors : the visual making of industrial work(ers) in interwar Luxembourg / Ira Plein -- Photography as a space for constructing subjectivities : Luxembourg's steel dynasties and the modern workforce as seen through the glass plate negatives from the Institut Emile Metz / Françoise Poos -- Buddhism, business, and Red-Cross diplomacy : Aline Mayrisch de Saint-Hubert's journeys to East Asia in the interwar period / Klaus Dittrich -- "Sensuous geographies" in the "Age of steel" : educating future workers' bodies in time and space (1900-1940) / Karin Priem and Frederik Herman -- The eye of the machine : labor sciences and the mechanical registration of the human body / Frederik Herman and Karin Priem -- Germs, bodies, and selves : tuberculosis, social government, and the promotion of health-conscious behavior in the early twentieth century / Enric Novella -- Transatlantic iron connections : education, emotion, and the making of a productive workforce in Minas Gerais, Brazil (ca. 1910-1960) / Irma Hadzalic -- Requiem for Gary : cultivating wasteland in and beyond the "Age of steel" / Angelo Van Gorp
N2  - "Fabricating Modern Societies: Education, Bodies, and Minds in the Age of Steel, edited by Karin Priem and Frederik Herman, offers new interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives on the history of industrialization and societal transformation in early twentieth-century Luxembourg. The individual chapters focus on how industrialists addressed a large array of challenges related to industrialization, borrowing and mixing ideas originating in domains such as corporate identity formation, mediatization, scientification, technological innovation, mechanization, capitalism, mass production, medicalization, educationalization, artistic production, and social utopia, while competing with other interest groups who pursued their own goals. The book looks at different focus areas of modernity, and analyzes how humans created, mediated, and interacted with the technospheres of modern societies"--
UR  - https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctvrxk41c
ER  -