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

from GeoffHabiger

The mark of a good non-fiction book for me is not only how in depth the author goes into a topic, or how informative, but whether I learned something new. With Behemoth, Joshua Freeman dives into the history of the modern factory, from its earliest days in the cotton and silk mills of England to ...

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The particular value of this book is the way that Freeman weaves together some bodies of knowledge that are usually not combined in terms of looking at labor history, business, history of technology and the aesthetics of modernity. As to why there should have been giant factories in the first pla...

from rivkat

Tracks factories all over the world, from the US versions to the even bigger Soviet versions to the even bigger Chinese versions. Factories brought people together where they could organize as workers-which is part of why capitalists in developed nations sought to get rid of them, or at least pla...

from tenamouse67

It isn't light reading, that's for sure, but this documented mass of information was presented in an interesting format that kept me awake the whole time. The few photographs speckled throughout add to the depth. It's amazing to observe how much has happened in the world around us and how much we...

from TeaTimeCoder

To much history and too little (next to none) of technology, psychology or sociology.