Joshua B. Freeman is a Distinguished Professor of History at Queens College and the Graduate Center of CUNY. His previous books include American Empire and Working-Class New York, among others. He lives in New York City.
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." Many factories that operated over the last two centuries―such as Homestead, River Rouge, and Foxconn―were known for the labor exploitation and class warfare they engendered, not to mention the environmental devastation caused by factory production from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution up to today.
In a major work of scholarship that is also wonderfully accessible, celebrated historian Joshua B. Freeman tells the story of the factory and examines how it has reflected both our dreams and our nightmares of industrialization and social change. He whisks readers from the textile mills in England that powered the Industrial Revolution and the factory towns of New England to the colossal steel and car plants of twentieth-century America, Eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union and on to today’s behemoths making sneakers, toys, and cellphones in China and Vietnam.
The giant factory, Freeman shows, led a revolution that transformed human life and the environment. He traces arguments about factories and social progress through such critics and champions as Marx and Engels, Charles Dickens, Alexander Hamilton, Henry Ford, and Joseph Stalin. He chronicles protests against standard industry practices from unions and workers’ rights groups that led to shortened workdays, child labor laws, protection for organized labor, and much more.
In Behemoth, Freeman also explores how factories became objects of great wonder that both inspired and horrified artists and writers in their time. He examines representations of factories in the work of Charles Sheeler, Margaret Bourke-White, Charlie Chaplin, Diego Rivera, and Edward Burtynsky.
Behemoth tells the grand story of global industry from the Industrial Revolution to the present. It is a magisterial work on factories and the people whose labor made them run. And it offers a piercing perspective on how factories have shaped our societies and the challenges we face now.
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發表於2024-12-23
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我們生活在一個工廠製造齣來的世界裏,或者,至少我們當中大多數人是這樣的。在我從事寫作的這個房間裏,幾乎所有的東西都來自工廠:傢具、燈、電腦、書、鉛筆、鋼筆和玻璃水杯。連我身上的衣服、鞋子,手錶和智能手機也是工廠生産齣來的。這個房間本身大部分也是工廠生産齣來的...
評分我們生活在一個工廠製造齣來的世界裏,或者,至少我們當中大多數人是這樣的。在我從事寫作的這個房間裏,幾乎所有的東西都來自工廠:傢具、燈、電腦、書、鉛筆、鋼筆和玻璃水杯。連我身上的衣服、鞋子,手錶和智能手機也是工廠生産齣來的。這個房間本身大部分也是工廠生産齣來的...
評分我們生活在一個工廠製造齣來的世界裏,或者,至少我們當中大多數人是這樣的。在我從事寫作的這個房間裏,幾乎所有的東西都來自工廠:傢具、燈、電腦、書、鉛筆、鋼筆和玻璃水杯。連我身上的衣服、鞋子,手錶和智能手機也是工廠生産齣來的。這個房間本身大部分也是工廠生産齣來的...
評分我們生活在一個工廠製造齣來的世界裏,或者,至少我們當中大多數人是這樣的。在我從事寫作的這個房間裏,幾乎所有的東西都來自工廠:傢具、燈、電腦、書、鉛筆、鋼筆和玻璃水杯。連我身上的衣服、鞋子,手錶和智能手機也是工廠生産齣來的。這個房間本身大部分也是工廠生産齣來的...
評分我們生活在一個工廠製造齣來的世界裏,或者,至少我們當中大多數人是這樣的。在我從事寫作的這個房間裏,幾乎所有的東西都來自工廠:傢具、燈、電腦、書、鉛筆、鋼筆和玻璃水杯。連我身上的衣服、鞋子,手錶和智能手機也是工廠生産齣來的。這個房間本身大部分也是工廠生産齣來的...
圖書標籤: 工業 曆史 economics 製造業 工廠製度研究 英文原版 外文 history
工業神話
評分就在社會科學快把工業、工業研究遺忘的時候,這本書齣現瞭。
評分就在社會科學快把工業、工業研究遺忘的時候,這本書齣現瞭。
評分已經翻譯完成瞭
評分就在社會科學快把工業、工業研究遺忘的時候,這本書齣現瞭。
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