BEHEMOTH - A HISTORY OF THE FACTORY AND THE MAKING OF THE IN SOUTH AFRICA

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days 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. Features Summary A sweeping, global history of the rise of the factory and its effects on society. Author Joshua B Freeman Publisher W W Norton & Co Inc Release date 20180226 Pages 427 ISBN 0-393-24631-0 ISBN 13 978-0-393-24631-5