The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work

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The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of WorkIn The Birth of Energy Cara New Daggett traces the genealogy of contemporary notions of energy back to the nineteenth century science of thermodynamics to challenge the underlying logic that informs today's uses of energy. These early resource based concepts of power first emerged during the Industrial Revolution and were tightly bound to Western capitalist domination and the politics of industrialized work. As Daggett shows, thermodynamics was

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