MRES.B.01 Science, Technology, Society: From History to Policy (MRES.B.01)
Units
3. Machinery, workers and worldviews in an age of cotton
Machinery of the first industrial revolution: The steam engine, the spinning mule, the watch. The historicity of the concept of "time". Disassociating labour from nature and the emergence of the factory. "Moral economy" and technological revolutions.
