Over the past several months, on the kind invitation of Michel Bauwens, I have been serializing chapters from my recently published book The Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low-Overhead Manifesto.  As stated in the product description at Amazon, the book is

A history of the rise and fall of Sloanist mass production, and a survey of the new economy emerging from the ruins: networked local manufacturing, garage industry, household microenterprises and resilient local economies.

Below are the excerpts to date, which go through the first five of the seven chapters:

Chapter One: A Wrong Turn.  First excerpt.  Second excerpt.

Chapter Two:  Moloch–The Anatomy of Sloanist Mass Production.  First excerpt.  Second excerpt.

Chapter Three:  Babylon is Fallen.  First excerpt.  Second excerpt.  Third excerpt.

Chapter Four:  Back to the Future. One excerpt.

Chapter Five:  The Small Workshop, Desktop Manufacturing, and Household Production.  First excerpt.  Second excerpt.

Chapter Six:  Resilient Communities and Local Economies.  First excerpt.