File spoon-archives/foucault.archive/foucault_1998/foucault.9811, message 91


From: "Jon Rubin" <j_rubin-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: the birth of the factory?
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 01:23:23 PST


Somebody else always worth looking at is Lewis Mumford particularly 
Technics and Civilisation. There's a useful discussion of mining as 
possibly being far more important for development of capitalism than 
factory (capital intensive, shift working, generally reliant on "naked 
labour") but also a discussion of things like uniform manufacturing 
which fits really tightly with Foucault. At the same time as you are 
getting massive armies - with all the investments in discipline that 
Foucault outlines - you also have massive logistical problems, not least 
clothing (and arming) all your soldiers identically which as a 
division-of-labour paradigm, Mumford suggests is far more pertinent than 
Adam Smith's pin-factory.

Jon

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