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Root number
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520505 |
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Semester
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HS2026 |
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Type of course
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Seminar |
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Allocation to subject
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History |
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Type of exam
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not defined |
| Title |
Work and Nature: On the Environmental History of Work in Modernity |
| Description |
In its most basic form, work is the transformation of nature. To obtain food, shelter, clothing, tools, and other everyday necessities, people transform the natural world around them through work. Karl Marx tried to capture this interactive relationship by referring to human work as “metabolism with nature.” At the same time, Marx pointed out as early as the mid-19th century that the conditions and manifestations of this “metabolism” were subject to profound socioeconomic and cultural changes that began to shape society’s perception of the relationship between work and nature. The rise of industrialization with its growing consumption of fossil resources; the emergence of factories with their highly specialized division of labor; the commodification of labor and land; and the utilitarian view of nature as a reservoir of raw materials and a recreational space fostered by the rise of the techno-scientific world – all this left a deep imprint on the understanding of work and nature in modern industrial societies. Cities covered in coal dust, polluted waters, and alienation from working materials were just as much part of the environmental experience of work for factory workers in the early 19th century as the use of and threat posed by chemical substances in post-war agricultural production were for farmers and farmworkers. This seminar explores these environmental dimensions of the history of work in the modern era. It provides an introduction to an environmental history of work in the age of industrial modernity, reconstructs its historical patterns of development, and thus takes up a recent historiographical trend that seeks to foster a fruitful dialogue between the history of work and environmental history. |
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ILIAS-Link (Learning resource for course)
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Registrations are transmitted from CTS to ILIAS (no admission in ILIAS possible).
ILIAS
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Link to another web site
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| Lecturers |
Dr.
Juri Auderset, Institute of History, 19th & 20th Century History ✉
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ECTS
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7 |
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Recognition as optional course possible
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No |
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Grading
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1 to 6 |
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| Dates |
Thursday 14:15-16:00 Weekly
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