New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
Steffan Blayney, "Health and Efficiency: Fatigue, the Science of Work, and the Making of the Working-Class Body" (Activist Studies of Science, 2022)
Steffan Blayney discusses his book "Health & Efficiency," which examines a model of health in Britain from 1870 to 1939. This model centered on the working body, efficiency, and scientific understandings of human labor, aiming to maximize national economic productivity.