Contents

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INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1

“LIKE MINERVA FROM THE BRAIN OF JUPITER”

The Invention of the Factory

CHAPTER 2

“THE LIVING LIGHT”

New England Textiles and Visions of Utopia

CHAPTER 3

“THE PROGRESS OF CIVILIZATION”

Industrial Exhibitions, Steelmaking, and the Price of Prometheanism

CHAPTER 4

“I WORSHIP FACTORIES”

Fordism, Labor, and the Romance of the Giant Factory

CHAPTER 5

“COMMUNISM IS SOVIET POWER PLUS THE ELECTRIFICATION OF THE WHOLE COUNTRY”

Crash Industrialization in the Soviet Union

CHAPTER 6

“COMMON REQUIREMENTS OF INDUSTRIALIZATION”

Cold War Mass Production

CHAPTER 7

“FOXCONN CITY”

Giant Factories in China and Vietnam

CONCLUSION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

NOTES

ILLUSTRATION CREDITS

INDEX