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Pub. Date
[1953]
Language
English
Description
Following World War II, the U.S. government continued its many contracts with large companies that built its weapons, aircraft, and vehicles. Factories that could build both commercial automobiles and military jets were part of what President Dwight Eisenhower later called the "military-industrial complex", and were promoted by military leaders as vital in the continuing cold war with the Soviet Union.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
PBS NewsHour correspondent economics correspondent Paul Solman revisits Lincoln Electric, a welding manufacturing company based outside Cleveland, Ohio. Through its use of merit-based profit-sharing and a no-layoff policy, the firm is an unlikely Rust Belt success story that hasn't laid off anyone for financial reasons since World War II.
Pub. Date
[1928]
Language
English
Description
Almost 20 years after Henry Ford introduced the Model T and revolutionized the automobile industry with his efficient assembly line system of manufacturing, intense competition with other automakers prompted the Ford Motor Company to usher in a new automobile. The Model A came in a variety of styles and colors, and included additional passenger comforts not previously available on the Model T.
Pub. Date
[1914]
Language
English
Description
The Munitions of War Act of 1915 allowed British women to temporarily fill the many industrial jobs left empty by soldiers fighting abroad in World War I. However, the Restoration of Prewar Practices Act of 1919 forced women workers to relinquish their jobs when the men returned from war.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 19
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
It is up to the Thea sisters to investigate when an Ecuadorian chocolate factory known for its environmental practices begins malfunctioning and the owner suspects sabotage.
Pub. Date
[2013], c1920
Language
English
Description
Manufacturing of corrugated boxes. Hinde and Dauch Paper Company Corrugated Fibre Shipping Boxes and Packing Materials. Film on making cardboard boxes, ca. 1920s, with lots of looking at camera and interaction between workers and camera. Scenes of their Cleveland, Ohio factory, plus views of other companies using their boxes.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Bringing to life the interworkings of a 1906 chocolate factory and one young crusader's passionate vision to see child workers free of factory work, this historical Christian Romance has a lot of heart and soul"--
When a suspicious accident occurs at the famous Dinsmore Chocolate Factory in Sinclair, Kansas, Caroline Lang goes undercover as a factory worker to investigate the circumstances surrounding the event and how the factory treats its child...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When their mom goes away for the weekend, the kids are left home with dad who plans to take them to the circus! But plans fall apart when dad must work overtime at The Chocolate Factory because there is a risk of a chocolate explosion! Meanwhile, mayhem ensues when the kids get into a feud with the nasty boys next door, the sons of The Chocolate Factory owner!
20) Factory Towns
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
For over thirty years, China has been little more than a giant factory for the world. But that is changing. Today, the economic behemoth wants to take on the world on its own terms powered by its might and ambition. But corporations are not the only ones dreaming bigger, factory workers are also claiming for more: higher pay, better conditions, more rights. The ambition for all things bigger and better is driving China's factories and people to ever...
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