Meaning of dark satanic mill | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A mill or factory during the Industrial Revolution, seen as monstrous and dehumanizing
   derogatory, in-plural, often
2. a similar modern form of exploitation.
   broadly

Examples

“Instead, the 30-year-old singer's subjects include that modern satanic mill, the call centre.”

“The working class just looks different. "Call centres are the new dark satanic mills. We have people who have to put their hand up to ask to go to the toilet.”

“Danny Boyle is expected present a grim picture of Britain's satanic mills with a towering factory chimney the centrepiece of a scene showing off the country's coal-powered past.”

“The former prime minister Tony Abbott has continued his crusade against wind turbines, labelling them the “dark satanic mills of the modern era”.”

“Never once did it cross my mind that these dark satanic mills were not only products of Yorkshire and Lancashire entrepreneurs, but built on the back of a vast network of slaves and slave-owning people who amassed the wealth of Great Britain in the industrial revolution.”

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