The Swedish writer Sven Lindqvist (1932-2019) is best known to English-speaking audiences for his clear-eyed dissection of colonial violence in Exterminate all the Brutes and for his account, in A History of Bombing, of the way that techniques and ideologies of extermination, perpetrated on colonial subjects, were reimported to Europe.12 In Dig Where You Stand, recently translated into English for the first time, Lindqvist investigates the hidden history of work; what corporate accounts and the biographies of industrialists omit.3 Taking Swedish cement manufacture as a case study, the book serves as a toolkit using self-education, historical research, and political solidarity to fill the …