How Long to Read The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor

How Long Does it Take to Read The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 53 minutes to read The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor by Anson Rabinbach

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

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 Helmholtz’s social thermodynamics, Albert Speer’s Beauty of Labor program in Nazi Germany, and on to the post-Fordist workplace, Rabinbach shows how society, the body, and labor utopias dreamt up future societies and worked to bring them about. This masterful follow-up to The Human Motor, Rabinbach’s brilliant study of the European science of work, bridges intellectual history, labor history, and the history of the body. It shows the intellectual and policy reasons as to how a utopia of the body as motor won wide acceptance and moved beyond the “man as machine” model before tracing its steep decline after 1945—and along with it the eclipse of the great hopes that a more efficient workplace could provide the basis of a new, more socially satisfactory society.

How long is The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor?

The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor by Anson Rabinbach is 232 pages long, and a total of 58,464 words.

This makes it 78% the length of the average book. It also has 71% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 19 minutes to read The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor aloud.

What Reading Level is The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor?

The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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