Performance anxiety: sport and work in Germany from the Empire to Nazism
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Beteilige Person: Hau, Michael (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London University of Toronto Press [2017]
Schriftenreihe:German and European studies 25
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Abstract:"Performance Anxiety analyses the efforts of German elites, from 1890 to 1945, to raise the productivity and psychological performance of workers through the promotion of mass sports. Michael Hau reveals how politicians, sports officials, medical professionals, and business leaders articulated a vision of a human economy that was co-opted in 1933 by Nazi officials in order to promote competition in the workplace. Hau's original and startling study is the first to establish how Nazi leaders' discourse about sports and performance was used to support their claims that Germany was on its way to becoming a true meritocracy."--
Umfang:xvii, 361 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781442630628