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Making use of the theoretical tools of Marxist critical sociology, Ruy Braga proposes an innovative reading of the social history of Brazil – from Fordist populism to the Lulista hegemony – using the ‘politics of the precariat’ as an analytical vector. Braga’s analysis seeks to explain both economic and structural processes (peripheral Fordism, its crisis, the transition to financialised post-Fordism) and the subjective dimension of the proletariat suffering from precarity (the anxiety of the subordinate, the preoccupation of the worker, the plebeian or classist drive of the exploited). At the moment when the plebeian drive is once again stimulating strike activity in the country, underlined by the protests that have recently shaken Brazil, this book impels us to reflect on the limits of the current model of Brazilian development. First published in Portugese as A política do precariado: do populismo à hegemonia lulista by Boitempo Editorial in 2012.

Fordism. --- Marxian school of sociology. --- Brazil --- Social conditions.

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The "social space" is booming. In a large number of political and professional fields, recourse is made to "social spaces" or "local communities". The "activation" of "endogenous potentials", "social capital", "self-responsibility", "self-regulation" or "self-help" in the context of a long-term context is connected with the promise to be able to work on fundamental integration, distribution and control problems of advanced liberal societies. The present study examines the ambivalent role of social space policies in contemporary societal transformation and discusses ways in which space affine professions and movements can withstand questionable politico-programmatic invocations. Der "Sozialraum" hat Konjunktur. In einer Vielzahl von Politik- und Professionsfeldern wird auf "soziale Räume" oder "lokale Gemeinschaften" rekurriert. Die "Aktivierung" von "endogenen Potenzialen", "sozialem Kapital", "Eigenverantwortung", "Selbststeuerung" oder "Selbsthilfe" im nahräumigen Kontext ist mit der Verheissung verbunden, grundlegende Integrations-, Verteilungs- und Steuerungsprobleme fortgeschritten liberaler Gesellschaften bearbeiten zu können. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die ambivalente Rolle von Sozialraumpolitiken im gegenwärtigen gesellschaftlichen Transformationsgeschehen und diskutiert Möglichkeiten, wie raumaffine Professionen und Bewegungen fragwürdigen politisch- programmatischen Anrufungen widerstehen können.

Social space. --- Social policy. --- Social structure. --- Social problems. --- Welfare state. --- social space --- post-Fordism --- regional planning --- Gouvernementalität --- Kapitalismus --- Michel Foucault --- Neoliberalismus --- social space --- post-Fordism --- regional planning --- Gouvernementalität --- Kapitalismus --- Michel Foucault --- Neoliberalismus

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The "social space" is booming. In a large number of political and professional fields, recourse is made to "social spaces" or "local communities". The "activation" of "endogenous potentials", "social capital", "self-responsibility", "self-regulation" or "self-help" in the context of a long-term context is connected with the promise to be able to work on fundamental integration, distribution and control problems of advanced liberal societies. The present study examines the ambivalent role of social space policies in contemporary societal transformation and discusses ways in which space affine professions and movements can withstand questionable politico-programmatic invocations. Der "Sozialraum" hat Konjunktur. In einer Vielzahl von Politik- und Professionsfeldern wird auf "soziale Räume" oder "lokale Gemeinschaften" rekurriert. Die "Aktivierung" von "endogenen Potenzialen", "sozialem Kapital", "Eigenverantwortung", "Selbststeuerung" oder "Selbsthilfe" im nahräumigen Kontext ist mit der Verheissung verbunden, grundlegende Integrations-, Verteilungs- und Steuerungsprobleme fortgeschritten liberaler Gesellschaften bearbeiten zu können. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die ambivalente Rolle von Sozialraumpolitiken im gegenwärtigen gesellschaftlichen Transformationsgeschehen und diskutiert Möglichkeiten, wie raumaffine Professionen und Bewegungen fragwürdigen politisch- programmatischen Anrufungen widerstehen können.

Social space. --- Social policy. --- Social structure. --- Social problems. --- Welfare state. --- social space --- post-Fordism --- regional planning --- Gouvernementalität --- Kapitalismus --- Michel Foucault --- Neoliberalismus

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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.

Robots. --- Human mechanics. --- Human-computer interaction. --- Labor supply. --- Fordism. --- Marxism. --- National Socialism. --- Taylorism. --- automata. --- digital/digitization. --- energy. --- human body. --- industrial accidents. --- mechanism. --- metaphorology. --- neurasthenia. --- utopia. --- work.

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Wie hat sich die Anti-Baby-Pille in Deutschland von einer politisierten zu einer normalisierten Technik entwickelt? Die Autorin untersucht vielfältige historische Diskurse um die Pille in der BRD von 1958 bis 1989 und analysiert, wie die Pille als materielle Objektivation in gesellschaftliche Machtverhältnisse, Normierungsbestrebungen sowie Emanzipationsvorstellungen verstrickt war. How has the contraceptive pill developed in Germany from a politicized to a normalized technology? The author examines a wide range of historical discourses on the pill in the FRG from 1958 to 1989 and analyzes how the pill, as a material objectivation, helped shape social power relations, standardization efforts, and ideas of emancipation.

Anti-Baby-Pille --- bio politics --- Biomacht --- Biopolitik --- birth control --- contraception --- contraceptive pill --- dipositive analysis --- discourse analysis --- Diskursanalyse --- Dispositivanalyse --- fordism --- Fordismus --- Frauenbewegung --- Geburtenkontrolle --- neo malthusianism --- Neomalthusianismus --- Pille --- postfordism --- Regulationsansatz --- women's movement