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 …
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 Bulgarian
concerning a new labour code, reforms of the penal system, and developments in the construction industry; and speeches delivered by the Bulgarian leader, Todor Zhivkov, concerning productivity and efficiency …
involving the shut down of whole production lines. In industry as a whole, 11% of working time is lost because …
