Behemoth

A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World

Joshua B. Freeman

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Norton
03 April 2018

History; Industrialisation & industrial history

"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."

By: Joshua B. Freeman
Imprint: Norton
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 165mm, Spine: 38mm
Weight: 689g
ISBN: 9780393246315
ISBN 10: 0393246310
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 03 April 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World

... [Freeman] lay[s] out two centuries of factory production all over the world in ways that are accessible, cogent, occasionally rivering and thoroughly new. The history of large factories, as Freeman outlines it, is the history of the modern world and most everything we see, experience and touch. -- International New York Times An insightful history of giant factories... Mr Freeman rolls up his sleeves and delves into the nitty gritty of manufactiuring. He successfully melds together those nuggets with social history, on the shop floor and beyond the factory walls, from union battles to worker exploitation and, in the case of Foxconn, suicides. -- The Economist