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 ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
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