Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World - Joshua B. Freeman

Joshua B. Freeman

Category: Political

Narrator: Stephen Bowlby

Tags: Political, History, Documentary

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 listeners from the textile mills in England that powered the Industrial Re