Fabricating Modern Societies: Education, Bodies, and Minds in the Age of Steel

Karin Priem is Professor of History of Education and Head of Public History at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH, University of Luxembourg). Her publications and interdisciplinary research focus on social, cultural-material, economic, and educational history.Frederik Herman is lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (PH FHNW). He has published widely on topics such as school culture, materialities of schooling, psychophysiology, vocational training, and cultural learning.

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresList of AbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsIllustration CreditsIntroductionKarin Priem and Frederik HermanPart 1: Modeling Subjectivities1 Machines, Masses, and Metaphors: The Visual Making of Industrial Work(ers) in Interwar LuxembourgIra Plein2 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 MetzFrançoise Poos3 Buddhism, Business, and Red-Cross Diplomacy: Aline Mayrisch de Saint-Hubert’s Journeys to East Asia in the Interwar PeriodKlaus DittrichPart 2: Mapping Bodies and Senses4 “Sensuous Geographies” in the “Age of Steel”: Educating Future Workers’ Bodies in Time and Space (1900–1940)Karin Priem and Frederik Herman5 The Eye of the Machine: Labor Sciences and the Mechanical Registration of the Human BodyFrederik Herman and Karin PriemPart 3: Engineering Social Change6 Germs, Bodies, and Selves: Tuberculosis, Social Government, and the Promotion of Health-Conscious Behavior in the Early Twentieth CenturyEnric Novella7 Transatlantic Iron Connections: Education, Emotion, and the Making of a Productive Workforce in Minas Gerais, Brazil (ca. 1910–1960)Irma Hadzalic8 Requiem for Gary: Cultivating Wasteland in and beyond the “Age of Steel”Angelo Van GorpIndex