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.
"An insightful history of giant factories... Mr Freeman rolls up
his sleeves and delves into the nitty gritty of manufacturing. 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*
"... [Freeman] lay[s] out two centuries of factory production all
over the world in ways that are accessible, cogent, occasionally
riveting 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*
"Freeman has written a superb account... The author’s sympathy,
insight and exemplary anecdotes make this a marvellous book."
*The Guardian*
"Carefully researched and energetically written, Freeman’s book
takes in the first factories in Britain and New England, the great
mills of late-Victorian Pennsylvania, the rise of Fordism in the
1920s, the world of the industrial Soviet Union and today’s
colossal factories in China and Vietnam."
*The Sunday Times Ireland*
"... Behemoth is a tour de force, a powerful liberal retelling of
the factory narrative at a time of Trump and all he represents,
when it badly needs to be retold."
*Times Higher Education*
"Freeman does an essential service by publicising the continuance
of a system whose foundations rest on a banal evil."
*The Spectator*
"... fascinating book..."
*The New Statesman*
"Rich and ambitious... More than an economic history, or a
chronicle of architectural feats and labor movements, Behemoth
depicts a world in retreat that still looms large in the national
imagination."
*Jennifer Szalai - The New York Times*
"Fascinating... Freeman shows how factories have had an
overwhelming influence on the way we work, think, move, play and
fight."
*Scott W. Berg - The Washington Post*
"You may have no detailed knowledge of factories except that they
can be converted into cool lofts. In that case, you’ll learn much
from historian Joshua Freeman."
*Jonathan Rose - The Wall Street Journal*
"It is a book of epic scope."
*5 Star Review - The Telegraph*
"[Joshua Freeman] handles his material 'with the seriousness it
deserves' and if it 'can feel a little slow-going at times, that's
partly because of the knottiness of the history Freeman lays out,
as well as his honourable refusal to resort to simplistic notions
of grand progress or portentous doom'."
*The Oldie*
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