Factories
A factory, manufacturing plant or a production plant is an industrial site, usually a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another. They are a critical part of modern economic production, with the majority of the world's goods being created or processed within factories. Factories arose with the introduction of machinery during the Industrial Revolution, when the capital and space requirements became too great for cottage industry or workshops. Early factories that contained small amounts of machinery, such as one or two spinning mules, and fewer than …
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24 May 2022 English
Content in British Society, 1939-1951 is arranged in collections corresponding to the archives from which they were sourced. You can read more about the archive materials selected for this resource …
local authorities; ● the provision of shelters to factories engaged in important government contracts; ● the …
5 May 2022 English
Notes of interest with links to documents in Cold War Eastern Europe. Links to photos, maps and compelling stories.
enterprises". Concludes that visits to such factories are “are productive of nothing but a clanging …
LJMU: Liverpool John Moores University · 7 December 2018 English
A good deal has been made of the fact that amongst the numerous volumes which are the official History of the Second World War, the Ministry of Information (MoI) is …
scores of thousands of sites in pubs, shops, factories, service establishments, public libraries, buses …
UNE: University of New England · 28 February 2018 English
By the late 1930s it was widely expected, drawing on the experience of German air raids on Britain in the First World War, that if and when the next war …
“parachutists dropped on London,” sabotaged munitions factories, or even tests of street lights.35 A new wave …
University of Kent · 1 January 2018 English
This essay gives you an introductory view of the topic of war and social change on the British Home Front by using the changing position of women as a case …
workers. Young married women would go back to factories where they worked as girls, if they could park … middle-class women were evading conscription into factories and the services by undertaking voluntary work …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
great restraint shucting themselves into their factories and avoiding confrontation on the streets. The …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
A file of documents concerning the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (K.S.?.) and the Czechoslovak government. Subjects discussed in the file include a conference of K.S.?. party secretaries; the sixth meeting …
not .just mean «[metallurgy, chemical and car factories, but also good housing, Issupplies7 services …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
enterprises, cement works, flour mills, edible oil factories, etc. The Government appear to be taking the lessons …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
reform programme cannot be implemented in those factories a which have been militeir^ized, and during …
