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

By: 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.
Holdings
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks HD2351 .F68 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001483733

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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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