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

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A sweeping, global history of the upward push of the factory and its effects on society. Giant factories, with their ingenious machinery and miraculous productivity, have long been celebrated as up to date wonders of the world. Yet from their very beginnings, when William Blake known as them ”dark Satanic mills,” they’ve also fueled our fears of the future. In a tremendous work of scholarship that may be also wonderfully accessible, celebrated historian Joshua B. Freeman tells the story of the factory and examines the way it has reflected both our dreams and our nightmares. He whisks readers from the textile mills in England that powered the Industrial Revolution to the colossal steel and car plants of twentieth-century The usa, Eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union to lately’s behemoths making sneakers, toys, and iPhones in China and Vietnam. He traces arguments about factories and social progress through such critics and champions as Marx and Engels, Alexander Hamilton, Henry Ford, and Joseph Stalin. He also explores the representation of factories within the work of Charles Sheeler, Margaret Bourke-White, Charlie Chaplin, Diego Rivera, and Edward Burtynsky.

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