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Joshua B. Freeman: Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World [2018] hardback Condition:New rising stakesFactories, 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 twentieth century America, Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, to