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In *Mechanize My Hands to War*, Erin K. Wagner explores how modern conflict reshapes the body, the workplace, and the moral imagination—turning labor into machinery and turning people into instruments. Through a high-level journey across the pressures of militarization and the systems that sustain it, the book traces the human cost of “efficiency” and the ways individuals negotiate complicity, survival, and conscience. Blending sharp social observation with a lyrical, urgent sensibility, Wagner illuminates themes of mechanization, power, and the politics of care in times of crisis. This is a thought-provoking work for readers drawn to contemporary cultural analysis, ethics, and the unsettling question of what it means to keep working when the world demands war.

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hardcover

DAW Books, an imprint of Astra Publishing House

Published Jan 1, 2024

322 pages

ISBN: 9780756419349

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First Published

2024

Language

eng

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