Behemoth : a history of the factory and the making of the modern world / Joshua B. Freeman.

By:

Freeman, Joshua Benjamin

Publisher: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2018]Edition: First EditionDescription: xviii, 427 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780393246315
0393246310

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

HD2351 .F68 2018

Contents:

The invention of the factory -- New England textiles and visions of utopia -- Industrial exhibitions, steelmaking, and the price of Prometheanism -- Fordism, labor, and the romance of the giant factory -- Crash industrialization in the Soviet Union -- Cold War mass production -- Giant factories in China and Vietman.

Summary: Factories, with their ingenious machinery and miraculous productivity, are celebrated as modern wonders of the world. Yet from William Blake's "dark Satanic mills" they have also fuelled our fears of the future. Telling the story of the factory, Joshua B. Freeman takes readers from the textile mills in England that powered the Industrial Revolution to the steel and car plants of twentieth-century America, Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, to today's behemoths making trainers, toys and iPhones in China and Vietnam. He traces arguments about factories and social progress through such critics and champions as Marx, Ford and Stalin. And he explores the representation of factories in the work of Margaret Bourke-White, Charlie Chaplin and Diego Rivera.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Factories, with their ingenious machinery and miraculous productivity, are celebrated as modern wonders of the world. Yet from William Blake's "dark Satanic mills" they have also fuelled our fears of the future. Telling the story of the factory, Joshua B. Freeman takes readers from the textile mills in England that powered the Industrial Revolution to the steel and car plants of twentieth-century America, Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, to today's behemoths making trainers, toys and iPhones in China and Vietnam. He traces arguments about factories and social progress through such critics and champions as Marx, Ford and Stalin. And he explores the representation of factories in the work of Margaret Bourke-White, Charlie Chaplin and Diego Rivera.

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