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Factory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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But over the past decade, thinned-out ranks of managers have been equipping factory workers with industrial robots and teaching them to use computer controls to operate massive steel casters and stamp presses.
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The article also says that workers at an iPod shuffle factory in Shanghai are housed outside the plant, and earn $100 per month—but that they must pay for their housing and food, “which takes up half their salaries.”...
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The Lives of Workers ... Texts on the Physical Effects of Factory Work [At Victorian Web] ... Florence Nightingale (1820-1910): Rural Hygiene [At this Site] ; Life on the farm was not that much of an improvement over a factory. But, eventually, the social activists turned their eyes on the countryside as well.
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At the start of the Industrial Revolution none of these laws existed and so working in a factory could prove to be very dangerous indeed. This section looks at some of the conditions faced by workers and offers a brief explanation of what was done to improve these conditions.
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By the turn of the century these kojo [factory girls] came from some of the poorest tenant-farmer villages in the entire country. The women and girls who became textile factory workers, including those from independent cultivator or prosperous farming homes, were no strangers to hard work.
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Owners of wind turbine factory on Isle Of Wight accused of trying to starve protesters into submission ... Supporters of workers occupying the Vestas wind turbine factory on the Isle of Wight today broke into the premises to deliver food, accusing the company of trying to starve the men into submission.
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