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Summary: 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 fuelled 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338 FREGreenwood, Barbara
Summary: A blending of the horrific facts of child labor during the early twentieth century with the imaginary story of one underage factory girl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2007
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Summary: The stunning, never-before-told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the heart of the Amazon, "Fordlandia" depicts a desperate quest to salvage the bygone America that the Ford factory system did much to dispatch.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co. 2009