
Industry
Industry (Manufacturing) is the creation or production of goods with the help of equipment, labor, machines, tools, and chemical or biological processing or formulation. It is the essence of the secondary sector of the economy. The term may refer to a range of human activities, from handicraft to high-tech, but it is most commonly applied to industrial design, in which raw materials from the primary sector are transformed into finished goods on a large scale. Such goods may be sold to other manufacturers for the production of other more complex products (such as aircraft, household appliances, furniture, sports equipment or …
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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 …
the effects of the war upon the distribution of industry and population, the work of public social services … of the war on industry, and localised studies of the nature and location of industry in the area. … range of subjects, including infrastructure and industry; air raid casualties, damage, and the dispersal … work between the armed forces, civil defence, and industry, and to administer the Schedule of Reserved Occupations … departments and local authorities, army commands, industry, public utilities, and other interests. An inspector …
24 May 2022 English
British Society, 1939-1951 contains records from collections such as: Records of central government departments and ministries; Records of Local Organizations and Wartime Bodies; Collections of government propaganda. Users can browse, …
Reconstruction; Salvage Rationing and Supply Evacuation Industry and Infrastructure Agriculture; Food supply Evacuation …
24 May 2022 English
British Society 1939-1951 provides access to thousands of documents from the collections of eleven U.K. government departments, each responsible for dealing with and reporting on the domestic situation in Britain …
Wartime politics ● Media and advertising ● Food and industry ● Childhood and youth ● Gender studies ● Crime …
5 May 2022 English
Notes of interest with links to documents in Cold War Eastern Europe. Links to photos, maps and compelling stories.
Textual A report on the Soviet civil aviation industry, based on a visit by the minister of State for …
4 May 2022 English
Editorial description of the content of Cold War Eastern Europe
Trade ● Embassy and Consulate Administration ● Industry and Agriculture ● International Relations ● Key …
UEA: University of East Anglia · 1 January 2018 English
When my students read the story “Careless Talk,” they often see the discussion of food as a sort of deceptively innocuous backdrop for the more serious matters in the story …
“carry on” tone that our contemporary heritage industry has memorialized on mugs and tea towels. And the …
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 …
contribution can women make to the vast reorganisation of industry planned by the Minister of Labour?”14 It notes … in the ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) and industry. Five-minute films (called “shorts”) were also …
AU: Aarhus University · 1 January 2017 English
“The socialist system has won in our country,” Antonín Novotný, the leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, triumphantly declared at a national party conference on July 5, 1960, and …
East European country with an advanced pre-war industry, ran into troubles in the early 1960s,21 but …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
A file of correspondence and reports concerning inner-German trade. The documents cover discussions on the extent of East German debt to West Germany; reports that East Germany is requesting assistance …
Knuth Fischer, Director of the Bank for Trade and Industry in Berlin on 9 December speaking about the problems … completely understand that industry, particularly middle ranking and small industry, now feels itself a bit … called upon here to do something, certainly for industry and perhaps also for the banks. We have therefore … Norway similar to that in the field of energy and industry conducted by Norway and Sweden. (Helsinki home … optimistic were suppliers to the goods vehicle industry, the manufacturers of plant and electrotechnical …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 French
A file containing documents relating to leading personalities in the Soviet Union. Subjects covered in the file include the death of the second secretary of the communist party, Mikhail Suslov; …
as Minister for the Timber and food Processing Industry. Busygin was previously first deputy minister … from the L o n d o n Chamber of ^ Commerce and Industry were received at the M i n i s t r y of F o r … Chairman of the T i m b e r , Woodworking and Paper Industry Workers' Union and from 1968 to 1980 one of the … T i m b e r , Pulp-paper and Wood processing Industry of the USSR (a I new M i n i s t r y ) . He … AS MINISTER OF THE TIMBER AND WOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRY IN OCTOBER 1980. LAST YEAR HE WAS ELECTED CANDIDATE …