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

by Joshua Freeman

A sweeping, global history of the rise of the factory and its effects on society. We live in a factory-made world: modern life is built on three centuries of advances in factory production, efficiency, and technology. But giant factories have also fueled our fears about the future since their beginnings, when William Blake called them “dark Satanic mills.” M

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Publication date

Feb 19, 2019

Format

Print edition

Pages

448

ISBN

9780393356625