Fabricating modern societies : education, bodies, and minds in the age of steel / edited by Karin Priem and Frederik Herman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Copyright Page / Karin Priem and Frederik Herman -- Dedication / Karin Priem and Frederik Herman -- Acknowledgments / Karin Priem and Frederik Herman -- Figures / Karin Priem and Frederik Herman -- Abbreviations / Karin Priem and Frederik Herman -- Contributors / Karin Priem and Frederik Herman -- Introduction / Karin Priem and Frederik Herman -- Modeling Subjectivities / Karin Priem and Frederik Herman -- Machines, Masses, and Metaphors: The Visual Making of Industrial Work(ers) in Interwar Luxembourg / Ira Plein -- 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 / Françoise Poos -- Buddhism, Business, and Red-Cross Diplomacy: Aline Mayrisch de Saint-Hubert’s Journeys to East Asia in the Interwar Period / Klaus Dittrich -- Mapping Bodies and Senses / Karin Priem and Frederik Herman -- “Sensuous Geographies” in the “Age of Steel”: Educating Future Workers’ Bodies in Time and Space (1900–1940) / Karin Priem and Frederik Herman -- The Eye of the Machine: Labor Sciences and the Mechanical Registration of the Human Body / Frederik Herman and Karin Priem -- Engineering Social Change / Karin Priem and Frederik Herman -- Germs, Bodies, and Selves: Tuberculosis, Social Government, and the Promotion of Health-Conscious Behavior in the Early Twentieth Century / Enric Novella -- Transatlantic Iron Connections: Education, Emotion, and the Making of a Productive Workforce in Minas Gerais, Brazil (ca. 1910–1960) / Irma Hadzalic -- Requiem for Gary: Cultivating Wasteland in and beyond the “Age of Steel” / Angelo Van Gorp -- Illustration Credits / Karin Priem and Frederik Herman -- Back Matter -- Index / Karin Priem and Frederik Herman.

Fabricating Modern Societies: Education, Bodies, and Minds in the Age of Steel, edited by Karin Priem and Frederik Herman, offers new interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives on the history of industrialization and societal transformation in early twentieth-century Luxembourg. The individual chapters focus on how industrialists addressed a large array of challenges related to industrialization, borrowing and mixing ideas originating in domains such as corporate identity formation, mediatization, scientification, technological innovation, mechanization, capitalism, mass production, medicalization, educationalization, artistic production, and social utopia, while competing with other interest groups who pursued their own goals. The book looks at different focus areas of modernity, and analyzes how humans created, mediated, and interacted with the technospheres of modern societies. Contributors: Klaus Dittrich, Irma Hadzalic, Frederik Herman, Enric Novella, Ira Plein, Françoise Poos, Karin Priem, and Angelo Van Gorp.