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Have factories made the lives of workers better?

Geoff Riley

26th September 2019

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Here is Tim Harford's short piece on The Factory - in series two of fifty things that made the modern economy. Factories are changing and scaling to almost unprecedented sizes. But the increase in scale is not the only aspect of changing factory life and work. A super piece to add into the enrichment mixture when discussing economic thought. A hat tip to Pete Shelley for flagging up this great resource. Here is the link for downloading all of the broadcast episodes.

Teaching the ideas of Marx and Adam Smith ? Here’s a nice little intro ...... https://t.co/6zNzLX6SYA
— peter shelley (@peter_shelley) September 26, 2019

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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