Event Title
Lightning Round: We Are What We Make: A Critical Review of Joshua B. Freeman's "Behemoth"
Location
Moakley Auditorium
Start Time
9-5-2018 2:50 PM
End Time
9-5-2018 4:00 PM
Description
"Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World" (W.W. Norton & Company), written by Joshua B. Freeman, is a non-fiction work that provides readers with a novel, cogent and accessible overview of how the modern factory system developed. Freeman, a professor of history at CUNY-Queens College, claims that large factories impact almost everything that we touch, see and experience, and underpin the modern consumer economy. This session will provide the audience with a critical review of Freeman's book, with a focus on the positive and negative consequences of the factory system on owners, workers, consumers and society as a whole. A global perspective on this topic will be adopted and connections to current research in the fields of management and organizational psychology will be made.
Lightning Round: We Are What We Make: A Critical Review of Joshua B. Freeman's "Behemoth"
Moakley Auditorium
"Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World" (W.W. Norton & Company), written by Joshua B. Freeman, is a non-fiction work that provides readers with a novel, cogent and accessible overview of how the modern factory system developed. Freeman, a professor of history at CUNY-Queens College, claims that large factories impact almost everything that we touch, see and experience, and underpin the modern consumer economy. This session will provide the audience with a critical review of Freeman's book, with a focus on the positive and negative consequences of the factory system on owners, workers, consumers and society as a whole. A global perspective on this topic will be adopted and connections to current research in the fields of management and organizational psychology will be made.