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CHARACTERIZING THE FACTORY SYSTEM: FACTORY SUBJECTIVITY IN HOUSEHOLD WORDS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2007

Jonathan V. Farina
Affiliation:
New York University

Abstract

Here, we had better stop, though we have not told half that might be related on the subject of buttons. It is wonderful, is it not? That on that small pivot turns the fortune of such multitudes of men, women, and children, in so many parts of the world; that such industry; and so many fine faculties, should be brought out and exercised by so small a thing as the Button.

—“What There Is in a Button,” Harriet Martineau (1852)

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2007 Cambridge University Press

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