1st Edition
Histories of Productivity Genealogical Perspectives on the Body and Modern Economy
1. Histories of Productivity: An Introduction
[Peter-Paul Bänziger, Marcel Streng and Mischa Suter]
Part I: Capitalism and Its Emerging Regimes of Productivity
Introduction to Part I
[Mischa Suter and Peter-Paul Bänziger]
2. Transgressing Static Concepts: Population, Economy, and Growth in Early Modern Bioeconomics
[Justus Nipperdey]
3. African Women and the "Lazy African" Myth in Nineteenth Century West Africa
[Cassandra Mark-Thiesen]
4. Saving the Supply and Making People Work: Sustainability, Labor, and Control of Production in the Rubber Trade of Southeast Cameroon, 1899–1903
[Tristan Oestermann]
5. Useful Knowledge: The Monetary Education of Children and the Moralization of Productivity in the Nineteenth Century
[Sandra Maß]
6. The Contested Productivity of the Baker’s Body: Technology, Industrialization, and Labor in Nineteenth Century France
[François Jarrige]
Part II: Transformations of Twentieth-Century Productivism
Introduction to Part II
[Peter-Paul Bänziger and Mischa Suter]
7. Feeding Productive Bodies: Calories, Nutritional Values, and Ability in the Progressive Era US
[Nina Mackert]
8. Regaining Sufficiency: Work Therapy in 1930s German Internal Medicine
[Alexa Geisthövel]
9. Tracing the Developmentalist Regime of Productivity: Nation, Urban Space, and Workers’ Habitat in Mexico City, 1940s–1970s
[Monika Streule]
10. Waste or Motivation?: The Productivity Discourse Between Past and Future in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
[Lukas Held]
11. Afterword: Histories of Productivity and Modes of Production
[Andrew Zimmerman]
Biography
Peter-Paul Bänziger is currently the recipient of an Ambizione grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation at the University of Basel.
Mischa Suter is a lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Basel.
