Behemoth : a history of the factory and the making of the modern world
Freeman, Joshua Benjamin2019
Books
This title is a sweeping, global history of the rise of the factory and its effects on society. 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.
Main title:
Behemoth : a history of the factory and the making of the modern world / Joshua B. Freeman.
Author:
Freeman, Joshua Benjamin, author
Imprint:
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2019.
Collation:
xviii, 427 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2018.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780393356625 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
338.6509
Language:
English
BRN:
260902
More Information: