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X-WR-CALNAME:""In the Service of Production": Labor Psychology in Socialist
  China" by Victor Seow\, Harvard University (HSTEM talks)
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DESCRIPTION:When accidents\, defects\, and slowdowns occur in sites of prod
 uction\, who—or what—tends to be held responsible: the worker\, the ma
 chine\, or the conditions of work? In 1950s China\, psychologists would of
 fer a distinctive answer to this question under the banner labor psycholog
 y. Based largely at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Psycho
 logy\, they entered factories and mines and treated breakdowns less as epi
 sodes of human error than as evidence of misalignment that could be redesi
 gned. Their attention turned to work rhythms\, signals\, instruments\, tar
 gets\, and feedback. This talk follows labor psychology across three areas
 : accident research that reframed responsibility in terms of objective con
 ditions\; training studies that accelerated skilled perception and judgmen
 t at the point of production\; and investigations of innovation and compet
 ition that used prototypes\, indicator boards\, and timely knowledge of re
 sults to organize collective creativity. Together\, these projects reveal 
 a Mao-era effort to engineer a socialist “human factor” through feedba
 ck-rich arrangements of cues and comparison\, promising safety\, efficienc
 y\, and initiative at once while rendering work newly legible and regulabl
 e.\n\nVictor Seow is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Scienc
 es Department of the History of Science\, Harvard University\, and author 
 of Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia (Chicago: Univer
 sity of Chicago Press\, 2022).\n\n \n\nThis talk is part of the History of
  Science\, Technology\, Environment\, and Medicine series (HSTEM talks).
LOCATION:\, GAR 4.100
SUMMARY:""In the Service of Production": Labor Psychology in Socialist Chin
 a" by Victor Seow\, Harvard University (HSTEM talks)
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 alks
CATEGORIES:Arts & Humanities
CATEGORIES:Science & Technology
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