TY - BOOK
T1 - Performance Anxiety:
T2 - Sport and Work in Germany from the Empire to Nazism
AU - Hau, Michael
PY - 2017/3/17
Y1 - 2017/3/17
N2 - 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 coopted 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. Performance Anxiety is essential reading for political, social, and sports historians alike.
AB - 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 coopted 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. Performance Anxiety is essential reading for political, social, and sports historians alike.
KW - German history
KW - sport
KW - work
KW - performance
KW - biopolitics
KW - meritocracy
M3 - Book
SN - 9781442630628
T3 - German and European Studies
BT - Performance Anxiety:
PB - University of Toronto Press
CY - Toronto Canada
ER -