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A Service of Leibniz-Informationszentrum econstor Wirtschaft Leibniz Information Centre Make Your Publications Visible. zbw for Economics Priem, Karin (Ed.); Herman, Frederik (Ed.) Book — Published Version Fabricating modern societies: Education, bodies, and minds in the age of steel Studies in Global Social History, No. 37 Provided in Cooperation with: Brill, Leiden Suggested Citation: Priem, Karin (Ed.); Herman, Frederik (Ed.) (2019) : Fabricating modern societies: Education, bodies, and minds in the age of steel, Studies in Global Social History, No. 37, ISBN 978-90-04-41051-0, Brill, Leiden, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004410510 This Version is available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/206794 Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen: Terms of use: Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Documents in EconStor may be saved and copied for your Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden. personal and scholarly purposes. 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Karin PriemundFrederik Herman - 978-90-04-41051-0 Heruntergeladen von Brill.com11/22/2019 09:06:17AM via Deutsche Zentralbibliothek fur Wirtschaf <UN> To Frank Simon ∵ Karin PriemundFrederik Herman - 978-90-04-41051-0 Heruntergeladen von Brill.com11/22/2019 09:06:17AM via Deutsche Zentralbibliothek fur Wirtschaf <UN> Karin PriemundFrederik Herman - 978-90-04-41051-0 Heruntergeladen von Brill.com11/22/2019 09:06:17AM via Deutsche Zentralbibliothek fur Wirtschaf Contents Acknowledgments ix List of Figures xii Abbreviations xiv Contributors xv Introduction 1 Karin Priem and Frederik Herman part 1 Modeling Subjectivities 1 Machines, Masses, and Metaphors: The Visual Making of Industrial Work(ers) in Interwar Luxembourg 35 Ira Plein 2 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 Metz 58 Françoise Poos 3 Buddhism, Business, and Red-Cross Diplomacy: Aline Mayrisch de Saint-Hubert’s Journeys to East Asia in the Interwar Period 79 Klaus Dittrich part 2 Mapping Bodies and Senses 4 “Sensuous Geographies” in the “Age of Steel”: Educating Future Workers’ Bodies in Time and Space (1900–1940) 111 Karin Priem and Frederik Herman 5 The Eye of the Machine: Labor Sciences and the Mechanical Registration of the Human Body 138 Frederik Herman and Karin Priem Karin PriemundFrederik Herman - 978-90-04-41051-0 Heruntergeladen von Brill.com11/22/2019 09:06:17AM via Deutsche Zentralbibliothek fur Wirtschaf <UN> viii Contents Part 3 Engineering Social Change 6 Germs, Bodies, and Selves: Tuberculosis, Social Government, and the Promotion of Health-Conscious Behavior in the Early Twentieth Century 169 Enric Novella 7 Transatlantic Iron Connections: Education, Emotion, and the Making of a Productive Workforce in Minas Gerais, Brazil (ca. 1910–1960) 193 Irma Hadzalic 8 Requiem for Gary: Cultivating Wasteland in and beyond the “Age of Steel” 219 Angelo Van Gorp Illustration Credits 241 Index 243 Karin PriemundFrederik Herman - 978-90-04-41051-0 Heruntergeladen von Brill.com11/22/2019 09:06:17AM via Deutsche Zentralbibliothek fur Wirtschaf <UN> Acknowledgments This volume has emerged from two research projects at the University of Luxembourg entitled “Fabricating Modern Societies: Industries of Reform as Educational Responses to Societal Challenges” (famoso and famoso 2) and funded by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (fnr). Its chapters result from a symposium organized by Karin Priem at the 38th International Stand- ing Conference for the History of Education (ische), which took place in Chi- cago in August 2016. The idea for the famoso projects originated in May 2010 during a lively and inspiring conversation with Jean Back, then director of the Luxembourg Centre national de l’audiovisuel (cna), Luxembourg’s national public institution for the conservation and promotion of the country’s audio-visual heritage. Back introduced Karin Priem, the principal investigator of the famoso projects, to a huge holding of some 2,400 glass plate negatives and positives related to the Luxembourg steel company Aciéries réunies de Burbach-Eich-Dudelange (arbed), a significant global player in the twentieth-century steel and iron busi- ness and Luxembourg’s main driver of social, cultural, and economic change. The glass plates offered a vivid glimpse into the industrial cosmos created by arbed during the first half of the twentieth century, displaying the company’s production site in Dommeldange, its impressively varied products, from huge iron and steel constructions to everyday products, its social and educational initiatives, as well as its workers, engineers, founders, and leaders. This archival holding raised further questions and encouraged research on the multifaceted history of arbed, its national, European, and global outreach, and its promotion of modern thought styles, also in view of far-reaching social, cultural, and eco- nomic transformations inside and outside of Luxembourg. Besides Jean Back, the main inspiration for the famoso projects came from Germaine Goetzin- ger, the honorary director of the Centre national de littérature (cnl) in Mersch, Luxembourg, who introduced Karin Priem to some key intellectual networks at the time, such as the Décades de Pontigny, the Colpach circle, and the Union de la vérité of Paul Desjardins. These networks were important avant-garde discussion forums for Luxembourg’s industrialists and their families who were eager to create their own new role models in the era of industrialization and develop modern cultural, societal, and socio-educational reforms. The first steps in the design of the famoso projects date back to 2011 and were much stimulated by a booklet entitled Œuvres sociales. Published by arbed in 1922, the booklet gave insight into the wide range of the industrialists’ pater- nalistic and philanthrocapitalist initiatives, which were not only a response to Karin PriemundFrederik Herman - 978-90-04-41051-0 Heruntergeladen