A review by colin_cox
Life in the Iron Mills by Rebecca Harding Davis

5.0

Life in the Iron-Mills is a readable, relevant, and prescient story of workers, workers' rights, and capitalist exploitation. As I write this, the world suffers from a global pandemic, and in the United States, some political leaders call for the end of stay-at-home orders (orders designed to protect us all, but workers in particular). Some argue the economy is more important than life itself. This is the logic of capital, and it is precisely this logic that Davis works to expose. While the particulars change, the logic that unpins forms of exploitation in a capitalist system remains the same.