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• Short-listed for Cundill History Prize 2018

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Ranging from the early industrial revolution in England to the factories in modern-day China that produce iPhones, with stops along the way in New England mill towns, Henry Ford's Detroit and Stalin's Russia, this remarkable book traces the history of the giant factory and the people-capital, labor, consumers, and fascinated observers-whose lives it shaped. If you want to know where the world we live in came from, this is a good place to start. -- Eric Foner

... [Freeman] lay[s] out two centuries of factory production all over the world in ways that are accessible, cogent, occasionally rivering and thoroughly new. The history of large factories, as Freeman outlines it, is the history of the modern world and most everything we see, experience and touch. -- International New York Times An insightful history of giant factories... Mr Freeman rolls up his sleeves and delves into the nitty gritty of manufactiuring. He successfully melds together those nuggets with social history, on the shop floor and beyond the factory walls, from union battles to worker exploitation and, in the case of Foxconn, suicides. -- The Economist

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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.

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