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Men and Machines
McCarthy, Mary | February 14, 1934 issue

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The article focuses on the book "Modern Tragedy," by Phyllis Bentley. In her new novel Bentley joins the professors in an attempt to analyze the failure of the present economic system. Looking at the system, she is struck, perhaps naively, by the fact that it has linked the lives of men more closely than they have ever been linked before. Industrial society is simply a machine of then, if one cog slips, the machine may fall silent. In "Modern Tragedy" Bentley considers the errors and weaknesses which ruined the textile industry in the town of Hudley, Yorkshire.

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MODERN Tragedy (Book); BENTLEY, Phyllis; ECONOMIC systems; TEXTILE industry; INDUSTRIALISM; DEVELOPED countries
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