Joshua Benjamin Freeman

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 fueled 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.

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

Behemoth

Steve Fraser

A collection of essays examines the conflict between corporations and their employees, and explores ways in which labor unions can protect the rights of workers against the power of big business

Labor, Intellectuals, and the Social Reconstruction of America

Audacious Democracy

The Transport Workers Union in New York City, 1933-1966 : with a New Epilogue

In Transit

Examines the movements and developments that propelled the United States to world dominance, covering the transformations of World War II, the tragedies that shaped American civic life, and the loss of individual liberty to private corporations.

Joshua Benjamin Freeman

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