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Factories: general resources

Al, Stefan, Factory towns of South China: an illustrated guidebook, Hong Kong University Press, HD60.5.C6 F33 2012

Chance, Helena, The factory in a garden: a history of corporate landscapes from the industrial to the digital age, Manchester University Press, SB451.36.G7 C48 2017

Darley, Gillian, Factory, Reaktion, NA6400 .D37 2003

Freeman, Joshua Benjamin, Behemoth: a history of the factory and the making of the modern world, W. W. Norton & Company, HD2351 .F68 2018

Pevsner, Nikolaus, “Factories,” in A History of Building Types, Princeton University Press, NA4170.P48

Rappaport, Nina, Vertical urban factory, Actar Publishers, NA6400 .R37 2015

Sennett, Richard, The Craftsman, Yale University Press, 2019 (via Ebook Central)

Stephens, Matthew P., Manufacturing facilities design and material handling, Purdue University Press, 2014 (via Ebook Central)

Wiendahl, Hans-Peter, et al, Handbook factory planning and design, Springer, TH4511.A2 H36 2015

Industrial eras

Chenevez, Alain, “La Salina reale di Arc-et-Senans: dalla fabbrica al monumento,” Casabella, July/August 2002, p.50-53 (Italian)

Coitereaux, François, Traité sur la construction des manufactures …, 1791 (Descriptions of his own mill projects in Rouen, Lyon, etc.)

Guild,” “Industrial mill,” and “Studio,” Oxford Art Online.

Horn, Jeff & Jed Z. Buchwald, Path Not Taken: French industrialization in the age of revolution, 1750-1830, MIT Press, 2006 (via Ebook Central)

International Molinological Society (“the only organization dedicated to mills at a worldwide scale”)

Lis, Catharina, Worthy efforts: attitudes to work and workers in pre-industrial Europe, Brill, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Molà, Luca, The Silk Industry of Renaissance Venice, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000 (via Ebook Central)

Prak, Maarten & Jan Luiten van Zanden, Technology, skills and the pre-modern economy in the east and the west, Brill, 2013 (via Ebook Central)

Riello, Giogio, et al, How India Clothed the World: The World of South Asian Textiles, 1500-1850, Brill, 2009 (Full text via Jstor)

Tacoma, Laurens E., "The labor market" in, A companion to the City of Rome, Claire Holleran & Amanda Claridge, John Wiley & Sons, 2018

“Architecture for industry,” Progressive architecture, April 1951, p.82-88

Baltic, Scott, “Thinking vertical: multistory industrial space,” Urban land, May 1992, p.52-57

Biggs, Lindy, The Rational Factory: architecture, technology, and work in America’s age of mass production, Johns Hopkins University Press, TS178.B54 1996

Bolter, Jon, “The Works Factories in London 1918-1939,” AA Files, #36, Summer 1998, #37, p.17-32

Bronto, Carles, Architecture for Industry, LINKS International, NA6400.B76 1997

Buddensieg, Tilmann et al, Industriekultur: Peter Behrens and the AEG, MIT Press, N6888 .B433 A4 1984

Drury, Jolyon V. P., “Production buildings,” Architects’ journal, January 27, 1993, p.51

Edwards, Steve, “Factory and Fantasy in Andrew Ure,” Journal of Design History, Vol.14, #1, 2001, p.17-33 (On Ure’s 1835 novel of industrial utopia) (via JSTOR)

Fraizer, Mark W. & William Kirby, Making of the Chinese Industrial Workplace: State, Revolution, and Labor Management, Cambridge University Press, 2001 (via Ebook Central)

Hapke, Laura, Sweatshop: The History of an American Idea, Rutgers University Press, 2004 (via Ebook Central)

“Industrial buildings,” Architectural forum, April 1971 (Theme issue)

“Industrial buildings,” Architectural record, February 1957 (Theme issue)

"Industrial revolutions," Design Book Review, no. 35-6, Winter-Spring, 1995 (Theme issue)

Meister, Chris, “Albert Kahn’s Partners in Industrial Architecture,” JSAH, v. 72, #1, March 2013, p.78-95 (via JSTOR)

"Modern Manufacturing,” Annals of the American Academy of Political & Social Science, September 1919 (Theme issue)

More, Charles, Understanding the Industrial Revolution, Routledge, 2000 (via Ebook Central)

Pierson, “Notes on Early Industrial Architecture in England,” JSAH, v. 8, #1/2, January/June 1949

Skempton, A. W., “The first iron frames,” Architectural review, March 1962, p.175-186

Bronto, Carles, Factories & office buildings, Links, NA6400 .B768 2008

Dow Jones Industrial Average

Dutta, Manoranjan, China’s Industrial Revolution and Economic Presence, World Scientific Publishing, 2005 (via Ebook Central)

Frazier, Mark W. & William Kirby, Making of the Chinese industrial workplace: state, revolution, and labor management, Cambridge University Press, 2001 (via Ebook Central)

Industry Week (Industry news)

“Luoghi per il lavoro e fabbriche,” Casabella, March 2010 (Theme issue)

National Center for Manufacturing Sciences

Rappaport, Nina, “A smarter factory,” Metropolis, April 2017, p.68-73

Rappaport, Nina, Vertical urban factory, Actar Publishers, NA6400 .R37 2015

Society of Manufacturing Engineers

Thomas.Net (“Supplier discovery & product sourcing”)

Industrial building topics

Bell, Daniel, The Coming of post-industrial society: a venture in social forecasting, Basic Books, HN17.5 .B38 1999 (First published in 1976)

Detroit Revitalization Fellows, Wayne State University

Gillette, Howard, Camden after the fall, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005 (via Ebook Central)

Herron, Jerry, “Postmodernism Ground Zero, or Going to the Movies at the Grand Circus Park,” Social text, #18, 1987/1988, p.61-77 (On Detroit)

McGahey, Ricahrd M. & Jennifer S. Vey, Retooling for Growth: building a 21st century economy in America's older industrial areas, Brookings Institution Press, 2008 (via Ebook Central)

O’Hara, S. Paul, Gary, the Most American of All American Cities, Indiana University, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Power, Anne, Phoenix cities: the fall and rise of great industrial cities, Policy Press, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Ryan, Brent D., Design after decline: how America rebuilds shrinking cities, University of Pennsylvania Press, HT175 .R93 2012

Tumber, Catherine, Small, Gritty, and green: the promise of America’s smaller industrial cities in a low-carbon world, MIT Press, HT153.T86 2012

Wang, Mark et al (editors), Old industrial cities seeking new road of industrialization, World Scientific Publishing Company, 2014 (via Ebook Central)

Alanen, Arnold R. & Chris Faust, Morgan Park: Duluth, U.S. Steel, and the forging of a company town, University of Minnesota Press, 2007 (via Ebook Central)

Andrews, Gregg, City of Dust: a cement company town in the land of Tom Sawyer, University of Missouri Press, 2002 (via Ebook Central)

Connolly, James J. et al, After the Factory: Reinventing America's Industrial Small Cities, Lexington Books, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Crawford, Building the Workingman's Paradise, HT123.C688 1995

Dinius, Oliver J. & Angela Vergara (editors), Company towns in the Americas: landscape, power, and working-class communities, University of Georgia Press, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Green, Hardy, The company town: the industrial Edens and satanic mills that shaped the American economy, Basic Books, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Klein, Maury, Prisoners of Progress: American industrial cities 1850-1920, Macmillan, HT123.K55

Association for Industrial Archaeology (UK-based)

Bennett, James R. & Karen R. Utz, Iron and Steel: a guide to Birmingham area industrial heritage sites, University of Alabama Press, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Edensor, Tim, Industrial ruins: spaces, aesthetics and materiality, Berg, T370E33 2005

Gordon, Robert B. & Patrick M. Malone, Texture of industry: an archaeological view of the industrialization of North America, Oxford University Press, 1997 (via Ebook Central)

The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage

International Committee for the History of Technology

Society for Industrial Archaeology (US-based)

Ganne, Bernard & Yveline Lecler, Asian Industrial Clusters, global competitiveness and new policy initiatives, World Scientific Publishing Co., 2009 (via Ebook Central)

Urban Land Institute, Business and Industrial Park Handbook, ULI, 2001 (via Ebook Central)

ULI, Industrial Districts; principles in practice, NA9000.U67 no. 44

Zeng, Douglas Zhihua (editor), Building Engines for Growth and Competitiveness in China: experience with special economic zones and industrial clusters, World Bank Publications, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Zeng, Douglas Zhihua (editor), Knowledge, technology, and cluster-based growth in Africa, World Bank Publications, 2008 (via Ebook Central)

Alexander, Jennifer Karns, The Mantra of Efficiency: From Waterwheel to Social Control, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008 (via Ebook Central)

Center for Working-Class Studies

China Labor Watch

Engels, Frederick, Condition of the Working Class in England, 1845 (via Ebook Central)

Jacoby, Sanford M., Employing bureaucracy: managers, unions, and the transformation of work in the 20th century, Taylor & Francis, 2004 (via Ebook Central)

Knaigel, Robert, One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency, Viking, T55.9.K37 1997

Lamond, David, Management History, Emerald Publishing Limited, 2005 (via Ebook Central)

Taylor, Frederick Winslow, Principles of Scientific Management, Harper & Bros., TT55,9.T377 1998 (Classic efficiency text of 1911)

  • Lewis W. Hine (1874-1940), America & Lewis Hine, TR647.H56 1977; The Empire State Building, TR647.H5634 1998; and Dimock, “Children of the Mills: re-reading Lewis Hine's child-labour photographs,” Oxford Art Journal, v. 16, #2, 1993
  • Charles Sheeler (1883-1965), The Photographs, N6537. S523 A4 1987a
  • Paul Strand (1890-1967), Sixty years of photographs, TR647 .S771 1976
  • Aleksandr Rodchenko (1891-1956), The Future is our only goal, N6999.R62 A4 1991
  • Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971), The Photographs, TR647 .B68 A29 1972
  • Andreas Feininger (1906-1999), Industrial America 1940-1960, TR647.F45 1981
  • The Bechers—Bernd (1931-20007) and Hilla (1934- )—produced photographic typologies of industrial structures, from the 1960s through the first decade of the 21st century, documented in books including Cooling towers, TR647 .B43 2005; Framework houses of the Siegen industrial region, NA647.B43 1977; Gas tanks, TR647 .B4313 1993; Grain elevators, TR647.B43 2006; Pennsylvania coal mine tipples, TR647.B43 1991; Typologies, TR647 .B43 2004; Water towers, TR647 .B43 1988
  • Sebastião Salgado (1944- ), Workers: an archaeology of the industrial age, TR647 .S23 1993b
  • Lewis Baltz (1945- ), The new industrial parks near Irvine, California, TR647 .B325 2001
  • Robert Polidori (1951- )
  • Allan Sekula (1951-2013), Fish story, TR670.S45 1995
  • Edward Burtynsky (1955- ), Oil, TR647 .B87 2009 (See also the documentary Manufactured landscapes, DVD #2194

 

… See also “The Search for radical capitalism at Fortune magazine,” in Vanderlan, Politics, Art, and Ideas Inside Henry Luce's Media Empire, 2010 (via Ebook Central), the Prelinger Archive of Sponsored Films, and Hediger, Films that Work: industrial film and the productivity of media, 2009 (via Ebook Central)

Chalana, Manish, “Of mills and malls: the future of urban industrial heritage in neoliberal Mumbai,” Future anterior, Summer 2012, p.1-15 (via JSTOR)

Gallagher, John, “Detroit: in the long-empty buildings of the Motor City's manufacturing past, technology firms are shaping new workspaces for the 21st-century,” Architectural record, October 2013, p.68-71

Gonchar, Joann, “Factory made,” Architectural Record, July 2017, p.82-85

Lindner, Christopher & Brian Rosa, Deconstructing the High Line: postindustrial urbanism and the rise of the elevated park, Rutgers University Press, F128.65.H54 D43 2016

Storm, Anna, “Visible wounds,” Topos, 2013, #93, p.32-37

Thomas, Selma (editor), Rehabilitation: alternative for Historic Industrial Buildings, U. S. Department of the Interior, TH3411.R43

Factories of different industries

American Apparel Producers’ Network

American Textile Machinery Association

English, Beth Anne et al, Common Thread: Labor, Politics, and Capital Mobility in the Textile Industry, University of Georgia Press, 2006 (via Ebook Central)

[Florsheim Shoe factory, Chicago] Progressive architecture, July 1956

Garment Contractors Association of Southern California

McAvoy, Christy Johnson, “Not your standard rehab,” Urban land, November/December 2011, p.144 (On the Renaissance Building, DTLA)

Ross, J. S., Slaves to Fashion: Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops, University of Michigan Press, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Smith, Joanna, East Tilbury, Essex, historic area appraisal, 2007 (On the Bata shoe factory town)

Timmerman, Kelsey, Where am I Wearing? a global tour to the countries, factories, and people that make our clothes, John Wiley & Sons, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Unite Here (In 2004 the Union of Needletrades, Industrial, and Textile Employees merged with the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union)

International Council of Beverages Associations

International Tobacco Growers Association

Meiningers Wine Business International

Redecke, Sebastian, “Tabakfabrik ohne Tabak,” Bauwelt, February 11, 2011, p.12-15 (On Behren’s 1930s cigarette factory in Linz)

Redecke, Sebastian, “Umnutzung der Tabakfabrik von Pier Luigi Nervi in Bologna zu einem Technologiezentrum,” Bauwelt, September 1, 2012, p.10-13 (tobacco factory converted into a technology center)

Tinajero, Araceli & Judith E. Grasberg, El Lector: a history of the cigar factory reader, University of Texas Press, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Chandler, Alfred D. et al, Inventing the electronic century, Harvard University Press, HD9696 .A2 C43 2005

“Designing against obsolescence,” Architectural record, January 1962 (Two electronics plants)

Information Technology Industry Council

“Production and administration building in Freiburg,” Detail, #1/2, 2008 (On Hüttinger Elektronik by Barkow Leibinger)

Yan, Zhu, 798: a photographic journal, Timezone 8 Limited, N7345 .Y3 2004 (Bejing’s DaShanZi factory complex transformed to art district)

Brennan, James G. & Alistair S. Grandison, Food Processing Handbook, Wiley-VCH, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

[Matadero slaughterhouse conversion, Madrid] Detail, July/August 2013, p.104-111

Ahmed, Jasim & M. Shafiur Rahman (editors), Handbook of Food Process Design, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Yoshimura, Yasutaka, “Social sustenance,” Domus, May 2013, p.38-43 (Koisuru-Buta Laboratory food processing facility)

Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturer's Association

Cruikshank, Jeffrey L., Herman Miller, Inc. buildings and beliefs, American Institute of Architects, NA737.H39 C78 1994

Edwards, Clive, Twentieth-Century Furniture: Materials, Manufacture and Markets, Manchester University Press, TS880.E39 1994

Fehlbaum, Rolf, “Architettura per tutti gli usi: la collezione Vitra a Weil am Rheim,” Casabella, April 2010, p.16-20

Lepik, Andres, “The sublime is now,” Domus, May 2013, p.28-37

The Merchandise Mart

National Kitchen and Bath Association

North American Home Furnishings Association

“Research and development centre in Dogern,” Detail, 2013, #2, p.138-143 (English ed.)

Vitra campus

 

Anderson, Stanford, “Modern architecture and industry: Peter Behrens and the AEG factories,” Oppositions, #23, Winter 1981, p.[52]-83

Association for Manufacturing Technology

Modern Machine Shop

American Foundrymen's Society

Dr. Siemens’ electrical furnace,” Science, v. 1, #26, December 25, 1880, p.315-316

Fabricators & Manufacturers Association, International (Publishers of The Fabricator)

Madar, Daniel, Big Steel: Technology, Trade, and Survival in a Global Market, UBC Press, 2009 (via Ebook Central)

Roy, Jean-Marie & Laurent Gouland, “Les Forges du Saint-Maurice Blast Furnace Complex,” APT Bulletin, v. 18, #1/2, 1986, p.32-37

Buckley, Geoffrey L., Extracting Appalachia: images of the Consolidation Coal Company, 1910-1945, Ohio University Press, 2004 (via Ebook Central)

Friedrich, Jan & Jens Falke, “Zollverein School of Management & Design,” Bauwelt, August 18, 2006, p.24-33 (Re-use of mine buildings in Essen)

Mining.com (“Your source for global mining news”)

Portillo, Andrea, “The Ruhr Museum in Zeche Zollverein by OMA,” Metalocus, October 21, 2015

Robertson, David, Hard as the Rock Itself: place & identity in American mining towns, University Press of Colorado, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

Stock market activity in Nonmetalic mineral mining, U.S. Office of Surface Mining (OSM operates the National Mine Map Repository)

Bormans, P., Ceramics are more than clay alone: raw materials, products, applications, Cambridge International Science Publishing, 2003 (via Ebook Central)

Brick Industry Association

Ceramic Industry magazine (technology and trends in manufacturing)

Goeritz, Marianne, “Brickyard architecture,” Progressive Architecture, September 1957, p.105-109 (In Mexico)

International Masonry Institute

Jupp, Edmund W., Brick watching, Intellect Books Limited, 2002 (via Ebook Central)

National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association

American Petroleum Institute

Bai, Qiang & Yong Bai, Subsea pipeline design, analysis, and installation, Gulf Professional Publishing, 2014 (via Ebook Central)

Black, Brian, Petrolia: The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000 (via Ebook Central)

El-Reedy, Mohamed A., Construction management and design of industrial concrete and steel structures, Taylor & Francis, 2010 (via Ebook Central)

National Mining Association

Offshore Technology Research Center

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

Stock market activity in Oil & Gas Drilling & explorationEquipment & servicesPipelinesRefining & marketing.

Brenner, “A hole in the sky: 8522 National Boulevard, Culver City,” Architectural record, April 1988 (Conversion of plastic factory)

“Britain rubber factory,” Architectural Forum, May 1952, p.142-145 (See also Cox, “The Brynmawr Rubber Factory,” AA files, #10, Autumn 1985, p.3-12)

Harp, Stephen L., A world history of rubber: empire, industry, and the everyday, Wiley Blackwell, 2016 (via Ebook Central)

Langdon, Philip, “Factories for the future,” Progressive architecture, November 1995, p.50-57 (3 Wisconsin plastic factories)

Loadman, John, Tears of the Tree: The Story of Rubber, 2005 (via Ebook Central)

Nesmith, Lynn, “Freeway landmark: The Citadel, City of Commerce,” Architecture, December 1991, p.[62-67] (Conversion of rubber factory)

U.S. Tire Manufacturers Association

Society of the Plastics Industry

Stock market activity in Rubber & plastics.

Brower, Michael et al, A Practical Guide to Developing a Wind Project, Wiley, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

“Ecolabo Tsurugashima, Saitama, Japan,” Japan Architect, Winter 2015, #96, p.15 (Solar power plant)

Hsu, Thomas T. et al (editors), Infrastructure systems for nuclear energy, Wiley, 2014 (via Ebook Central)

International Atomic Energy Agency, Safety of nuclear power plants: design, IAEA, 2016 (via Ebook Central)

Moore, Rowan, Building Tate Modern: Herzog & De Meuron transforming Giles Gilbert Scott, Tate Gallery, N1080 .M66 2000

Parham, Claire, The St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project, Syracuse University Press, 2009 (via Ebook Central)

Pearman, Hugh, “We have the power,” RIBA Journal, March 2011, p.30-32, 34 (On YRM’s nuclear power plants)

Solar Energy Industries Association (See “Power plant development”)

Stock market activity in ElectricityGasWater.

Utility Workers Union of America

Wilkinson, Tom, “Typology: dish,” Architectural Review, June 2017, p.36-45 

“Aircraft plants,” Architectural forum, March 1952

Bell, Jonathan, Carchitecture, Birkhauser, HE5611 .C278 2001 (Office)

Bryan, Ford R., Rouge: pictured in its prime: covering the years1917-1940, Wayne State University Press, 2003 (via Ebook Central)

Bucci, Federico, Albert Kahn: architect of Ford, Princeton Architectural Press, NA737 .K28 B8313 2002

Faciejew, Michael, “The car factory, post-industrialism, and utopia,” Journal of Architectural Education, 2013, Vol.67, #1, p.52-63

Finizio, Gino, Architecture & mobility: tradition and innovation, Skira, NA2543.S6 F5335 2006

Huxtable, Ada Louise, “River Rouge plant for Ford Motor Company,” Progressive Architecture, December 1958, p.119-122

Lorell, Mark A., U. S. Combat Aircraft Industry, 1909-2000, The Rand Corporation, 2003 (via Ebook Central)

Stock market activity in Aerospace/DefenseAuto manufacturersRecreational vehiclesTrucks & other vehicles

Underhill, William, “Planes, trains, and automobiles,” Architect, February 2012, p.38, 40-41

Bidwell, John, American paper mills, 1690-1832, Dartmouth College Press, 2013 (via Ebook Central)

Lerner, Jill, “A tale of two neighborhoods [Atlanta, Georgia],” Urban Land, March 2009, p.65-69 (Paper mills, adaptive reuse)

National Paper Trade Association

Stock market activity in Lumber / wood productionPaper & paper products.

Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry

Wood Industry Association

Alternative keywords for searching

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