Histories of Productivity

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.

• 1. Histories of Productivity: An Introduction[Peter-Paul Bänziger, Marcel Streng and Mischa Suter]Part I: Capitalism and Its Emerging Regimes of ProductivityIntroduction 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 ProductivismIntroduction 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]