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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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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