Behemoth a history of the factory and the making of the modern world
Freeman, Joshua B.
Behemoth a history of the factory and the making of the modern world - New York W. W. Norton & Company 2019 - xviii,427p.
Contents:
Introduction xi
Chapter 1 Like Minerva from the brain of Jupiter : the invention of the factory 1
Chapter 2 The living light : New England textiles and visions of utopia 43
Chapter 3The progress of civilization : industrial exhibitions, steelmaking, and the price of Prometheanism 80
Chapter 4 I worship factories : Fordism, labor, and the romance of the giant factory 118
Chapter 5 Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country : crash industrialization in the Soviet Union 169
Chapter 6 Common requirements of industrialization : Cold War mass production -226
Chapter 7 Foxconn City : giant factories in China and Vietnam 270
Conclusion 314
Acknowledgments 323
Notes 327
Illustration credits 401
Index 403
9780393356625
Industrial revolution
Factory system
Factories
Industrialization
338.64409 / FRE
Behemoth a history of the factory and the making of the modern world - New York W. W. Norton & Company 2019 - xviii,427p.
Contents:
Introduction xi
Chapter 1 Like Minerva from the brain of Jupiter : the invention of the factory 1
Chapter 2 The living light : New England textiles and visions of utopia 43
Chapter 3The progress of civilization : industrial exhibitions, steelmaking, and the price of Prometheanism 80
Chapter 4 I worship factories : Fordism, labor, and the romance of the giant factory 118
Chapter 5 Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country : crash industrialization in the Soviet Union 169
Chapter 6 Common requirements of industrialization : Cold War mass production -226
Chapter 7 Foxconn City : giant factories in China and Vietnam 270
Conclusion 314
Acknowledgments 323
Notes 327
Illustration credits 401
Index 403
9780393356625
Industrial revolution
Factory system
Factories
Industrialization
338.64409 / FRE