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In the intro to Breaking Things At Work the author mentions slaves in North America breaking tools as a systematic and ideological rebellion in connection to the Luddites in Europe and I was very happy to see him make that connection.

Anyway I live in Philadelphia and it’s 2026 and everything is “happy 250th birthday America” so this is what I’m doing about that. Also convincing me to work in an archive…

At first I didn't mind the repetitiveness because it helped me keep my thoughts in order through these dire amounts of extremely important info, but some unprofessional choices in figures of speech is making the whole 'and now let me spend yet another paragraph putting forward the same generically pithy analysis that served me well the last twenty-five times I did it' rather grating.

A key argument for expanding the trade in Africans was that if London did not pursue this bestial path, it would fall behind other European powers.

(P.S. Important as this book is, my cat protests my momentarily resting it upon him in order to type out this quote: he left my lap only to immediately return again and shove himself just beyond the book's reach.)

The traditional narrative of the [US] republic's founding has emphasized insufficiently the amorality and trans-border ethos that came to define capitalism—which often was at odds with traditional notions of patriotism and even sovereignty.

Someone want to tell me which smart aleck 'librarian' on this godforsaken site didn't include the endnotes and index in the page count for this edition?