Graeber / Wengrow 595, in footnote: "The rationalization of labour typical of the factory system was, as scholars like Eric Williams long ago suggested, really pioneered on slave plantations in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries"
>from David Graeber and David Wengrow's Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021)
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