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

Freeman, Joshua B.

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ISBN 10: 0393356620 ISBN 13: 9780393356625

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2019

Riassunto

In an accessible and timely work of scholarship, celebrated historian Joshua B. Freeman tells the story of the factory and examines how it has reflected both our dreams and our nightmares of industrialization and social change. He whisks readers from the early textile mills that powered the Industrial Revolution to the factory towns of New England to today s behemoths making sneakers, toys, and cellphones in China and Vietnam. Behemoth offers a piercing perspective on how factories have shaped our societies and the challenges we face now.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Joshua B. Freeman is a Distinguished Professor of History at Queens College and the Graduate Center of CUNY. His previous books include American Empire and Working-Class New York, among others. He lives in New York City.

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"Freeman has written a superb account of how the material world in his phrase became "factory made"...The author's sympathy, insight and exemplary anecdotes make this a marvellous book." Ian Jack, Book of the Week, The Guardian

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.

Short-listed for the Cundill History Prize, 2018

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0393356620
• ISBN 13: 9780393356625
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 427
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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