Manufacturing agricultural working knowledge

The scientific study of agricultural work in industrial Europe, 1920s–60s

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ID12243364
AuthorsJuri Auderset (0000-0002-7994-1385, Archives of Rural History, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume32
Issue2
Pages233-248
Publication date2021-06-14
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRural History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0956-7933 • E-ISSN: 1474-0656
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s095679332100011x
OpenAlexW3171111571
LanguageEN
Citations received3

After the First World War, agricultural work became a subject of intense interdisciplinary scientific inquiry. The shortage of agricultural labour, the nutritional and agricultural crises and the increasing significance of the movement for the rationalisation of work contributed to the creation of new scientific institutions that focused on the study and improvement of agricultural work. This contribution sketches the emergence and development of the science of agricultural work in Europe from the 1920s to the 1960s and explores the intellectual controversies sparked by the attempts to shape farm work along the model of industrial manufacturing. The frictions and tensions between industrial ideals and agricultural idiosyncrasies not only led to a new scientific treatment of agricultural work, but also created a field of contestation between different conceptual approaches to perceiving, analysing and transforming agricultural work in the age of industrial capitalism

Agriculture · Business · Capitalism · Economic shortage · Geography · Political science · Politics · Rationalisation · Sociology · Subject (documents · Work (physics · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Computer Science · Engineering · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Law

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