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Listening Length: 13 hours and 43 minutes
Program Type: Audiobook
Version: Unabridged
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Audible.com Release Date: February 27, 2018
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Language: English, English
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This is a fascinating book. It begins with the late-17th century textile mills in England and goes all the way up to the gargantuan factory in China that's producing Apple products. Taylor's time and efficiency studies are here along with their effects on factories. Labor relations figure largely in the book, Factory architecture is also discussed: for example, the English textile mills -- sometimes 7 or 8 stories high, with (steam) elevators, were precursors of the skyscrapers! Who knew?! One of the best things about the book is Freeman's comparisons: using what he's taught us about Ford to help is understand the Soviet factories, for example.
I was pretty excited to read this one, but ultimately was disappointed. A lot of the more interesting factoids about Ford and Lowell Massachusetts have been covered in other more interesting books. Another issue is that there weren't enough illustrations which I think are necessary to show the size and scale of the factories. The descriptions, while nicely detailed, just left me wanting to see more, which I had to do on my own via google.The final chapter about Foxconn was fairly disappointing. 'Factory Girls' by Leslie T Chang does a lot better job of showing what life is like for the workers in these Chinese factories.
Fascinating book and very well written. Freeman has a great depth of knowledge about the subject and presents his arguments lucidly. This isn't a book about factories per se, although how they worked from the earliest British spinning mills in the 18th century to what's (rather mysteriously)going on at today's gigantic plants like Foxconn City in China where iPhones are manufactured, are interesting reads in and of themselves. What makes the book larger than its subject (factories) is how those who labored in these locations impacted society as a whole, and in many cases, the reverse. Henry Ford's Highland Park plant, the first to use assembly line manufacturing in cranking out Model Ts, actively encouraged visitors, most entranced by this new technology; the physical plant was used to promote the product, the same for the later River Rouge plant that I found fascinating - coal, iron ore, limestone came in from Ford-owned mines on Ford-owned ships and railroads, coking ovens and blast furnaces made steel - and a textile mill and glass factory at the site other components of automobiles - engine blocks poured and bored, sheet steel stamped, parts cast, and all the self-manufactured components emerged from the assembly line as a completed automobile. Freeman then moves on to state-sponsored gigantism, notably what was built during Stalin's first five-year plan, only achieved with a large amount of U.S. (paid for) help, something I was totally unaware of, as I expect the reader will be as well. Stalin's industrialization was not hailed by the state as necessarily the wondrous products turned out, but as the victory of socialism. However, both capitalist and socialist factories suffered the same problem: Communist theoreticians had long attacked factories in the West as exploiters of the workers, done to maximize the profits that accrued to factory owners. These "excess profits" would also be achieved in the Soviet system, now - by some fast mental gymnastics - viewed as OK as these profits would be owned "by the people," not an argument bought by those laboring in the plants.Common to the establishment of all these factories from the beginning to the present was how to assemble the necessary labor pool to run the machines? In and of itself an interesting topic I will not belabor here. Again common to all this history is how was this labor pool controlled, kept on the job under often horrendous working conditions? Techniques varied from raw coercion to building mini "workers' paradises" with decent housing and other amenities at the job site. Almost always, the either harsh or "make nice" attempts failed, in the USA as seen by the rise in the labor union movement starting in the 1930s that prompted manufacturers after WWII to abandon the mega-plant concept and the movement toward smaller plants scattered about the country - almost always to non-union, lower wage scale states, a move, along with the build out of the interstate highway system under Eisenhower, that changed the face of American manufacturing. The change in Chinese manufacturing from Mao to the present - and the change in the ideological justification for same - alone justifies reading this book. As noted earlier, Ford was eager to have people visit his first factories and people enthusiastically responded; today, does anyone know - or care - where their iPhone or sneakers were made?
Enjoyed the book as a light introduction to the history and concept of the factory. Far from being merely an economic process, the author writes about how the factory has also been about changing society.
If you're interested in factories or the history of labor, this is a good book to check out. It's a little more slanted toward the latter, more about the sociological impact of the factory, less about the technical achievements. I haven't seen many books cover the topic of factories in this much depth. The chapter on the Soviet Union was probably the most interesting to me, and nothing I had any clue about before reading the book. I would have preferred it to cover the technical aspects of the factories a bit more, and also to have more text on current day factories. Given what I think the author's goals were, though, I would say he did a great job.
This is a monumental work on the history of the factory, beginning with early textile mills in Europe, and covering the sweep of American industrial development and power, including its phenomenal response to WWII production demands. However, the author completely ignores development in Upstate New York, especially Cohoes, often called the "true center of the Industrial Revolution in the U.S."
Good book that lives up to its name in terms of the amount of details. Obviously written by a professor of history, definitely with a left-leaning lens (you have “dirty hands†if you own Apple stock).Best sentence from the book (hard copy, first edition, pages 263-264): “As Goodyear, GM, Ford, GE, and other American corporations had learned decades earlier, large assemblages of workers who work together, live together, pray together, drink together, and die together can turn the largest, most important factories from models of efficiency into weapons of labor power.â€
Excellent overview of the social and political impacts of large scale production in differening economic frameworks. Wanders a bit towards the end, but an important book
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