This article presents a survey of new approaches in German labour history that deal with the history of the body. It argues that Foucault’s conceptual and historical understanding of biopolitics… Click to show full abstract
This article presents a survey of new approaches in German labour history that deal with the history of the body. It argues that Foucault’s conceptual and historical understanding of biopolitics enables a profound rearticulation of the history of industrial work and the process of industrialization. The article addresses, however, not only the possibilities of biopolitics but also its limitations for a reconceptualization of labour history. The methodical and theoretical discussion is linked to concrete research into the body history of German coal mining in the Ruhr.
               
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