Behemoth: a history of the factory and the making of the modern world

Introduction

"Like Minerva from the brain of Jupiter" : the invention of the factory

"The living light" : New England textiles and visions of utopia

"The progress of civilization" : industrial exhibitions, steelmaking, and the price of Prometheanism

"I worship factories" : Fordism, labor, and the romance of the giant factory

"Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country" : crash industrialization in the Soviet Union

"Common requirements of industrialization" : Cold War mass production

"Foxconn City" : giant factories in China and Vietnam

Conclusion.