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A History of the Work Concept

Part of the History of Mechanism and Machine Science Book Series (volume 24)

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-7705-7

ISBN: 978-94-007-7704-0

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Nov 17, 2013

1 - 9 of 9 Chapters

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Theoretical Framework

Oliveira, Agamenon R. E.

Pages: 1 –37

[Karl Marx (1818–1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) were Marxism’s founders, both born a decade after the Napoleonic wars. Marx was the son of a lawyer from Trier, and Engels the son of a rich industrial man from Barmen. This means that both had a Rennin origin. They lived in prosperous...
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The Conceptual Basis to Work Studies

Oliveira, Agamenon R. E.

Pages: 41 –64

[Can it be, then, that Protagoras was a very ingenious person who threw out this dark saying for the benefit of the common herd like ourselves, and reserved the truth as a secret doctrine to be revealed to his disciples.]
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The Ideas of Work and Energy in Mechanics

Oliveira, Agamenon. R. E.

Pages: 65 –91

[It is difficult to trace the history of most physical concepts. This is also true for the concepts of work and energy. One line of investigation has been the process of the invention and construction of machines. In different ages, machines and devices invented to save work have always been...
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The Rational Mechanics Dilemma

Oliveira, Agamenon R. E.

Pages: 93 –117

[Since its genesis, the study of mechanics has always been associated with geometry and oftentimes with astronomy. It is unnecessary to say that any kind of mechanical theory is based on some concept of space. Specifically, classical mechanics and the special theory of relativity use Euclidian...
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Lazare Carnot’s General Theory of Machines

Oliveira, Agamenon R. E.

Pages: 121 –151

[Lazare-Nicolas-Marguerite Carnot was born on May 13th, 1753 into a bourgeois family from Bourgogne in France, which occupied a remarkable position in local society. Claude Carnot, his father, was a lawyer and public notetaker in Nolay, a small city close to the Côte-d′Or. The place where Lazare...
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The “Fundamental Principles of Equilibrium and Motion” of Lazare Carnot

Oliveira, Agamenon R. E.

Pages: 153 –179

[The rational mechanics of Galileo, Descartes and Newton was not, then, directly applied to machines and is not surprising that parallelly it was maintained a “corpus” of experimental knowledge, more or less formalized, addressed to practical constructors… It will be necessary to wait until the...
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The Metamorphosis of the Work Concept and its Incorporation into Economic Thought

Oliveira, Agamenon R. E.

Pages: 181 –218

[First of all, the work is a process in which participate man and nature, and human being with his action propels, regulates and controls his material interchange with nature. He faces the nature as one of his forces. He moves natural forces of his body, arms and legs, head and hands, in order to...
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Conclusions

Oliveira, Agamenon R. E.

Pages: 219 –239

[In this last chapter, by way of a conclusion, after some general considerations about the investigation, we will look in a synthetic manner at three questions that are closely related to the central theme being dealt with here.]
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Erratum to: The Conceptual Basis to Work Studies

Oliveira, Agamenon R. E.

Pages: E1 –E2

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