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Behemoth a history of the factory and the making of the modern world

By: Publication details: New York W. W. Norton & Company 2019Description: xviii,427pISBN:
  • 9780393356625
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.64409 FRE
Contents:
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
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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

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