The Eclipse of the Utopias of LaborThe Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor traces the shift from the eighteenth century concept of man as machine to the late twentieth century notion of digital organisms. Step by stepfrom Jacques de Vaucanson and his Digesting Duck, through Karl Marxs Capital, Hermann von Helmholtzs social thermodynamics, Albert Speers Beauty of Labor program in Nazi Germany, and on to the post Fordist workplace, Rabinbach shows how society, the body, and labor utopias