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guilds and a reduction in customs duties, new businesses were founded: As was so often the case, textile manufacturing was the pioneer, and the first mechanical engineering companies also began operations

Yugoslavian government invested in North Macedonian more substantially in light industry: food, textile and cigarette factories were founded, and the manufacture of agricultural machinery and household

equipment, causing serious health problems and even death. Female prisoners were mainly employed in the textile industry, for example in the production of tights and bed linen. Here, too, the pressure to perform [...] products of forced labour were often exported to West Germany in exchange for foreign currency: Textiles, cameras, furniture and other items ended up on Western rummage tables and in mail-order catalogues

Yugoslavian state, founded in 1918, Montenegro remained the smallest and poorest part. A few Croatian textile companies opened operations there to take advantage of the low wages and taxes, and the cities of

Soviet Union. At the same time, machine and tractor construction plants as well as factories for textiles and electrical appliances were built in the larger cities. Heavy industry was concentrated east [...] 1964. In Rîbniţa, a large cement factory opened its doors in 1961 and a steelworks in 1985. The textile manufacturer "Tirotex" was founded in Tiraspol. Right up to the present, the country's most important [...] crisis. At the same time, factories for machine and tractor construction as well as factories for textiles and electrical appliances were built in the larger cities. Heavy industry, on the other hand, was

predestined it for a major role in naval matters in particular. For several centuries, a profitable textile industry also developed on the basis of cotton, which the Arabs brought to Malta in the 9th century

Long before the country's capital became a leading financial and administrative centre there were textile factories on the banks of the River Alzette. As so often these were the forerunners of industrialisation

the capital needed to establish larger enterprises, such as heavy industry, was lacking. Food and textile production remained dominant, followed by metal and wood processing operations. After the Second

the Swiss entrepreneurs Caspar Jenny and Johann Jakob Spoerry. In 1905 they merged to form a major textile company that produced, with interruptions, until 1992. The imposing factory buildings in Tresen,

an enormous labour force, and the first factories emerged in the cities. In Riga in particular, textile, wood, metal-working and tobacco-processing enterprises flourished. Railroad construction triggered [...] into operation and the enterprise RAF quickly made a name for itself in minibuses. Wood processing, textiles and paper manufacturing also expanded. In the 1960s the Baltic republics covered a major portion

was Europe’s leader in paper manufacturing; quasi-industrial forms of production emerged in the textile sector early on; and the powerful naval city of Venice, whose arsenals at times employed over ten

north-south axis of the island. Belfast developed into a centre for trade, attracting first the textile merchants and then the banks – an early example of the divide between the predominantly English/ [...] economy dominated the Irish market with technical products, but imported only food products and textiles from Ireland. When the Irish Free State, later to become the Republic of Ireland, was founded in [...] foreign investors. As wages too were very low, businesses in labour-intensive industries such as textile and shoe production and plastics processing soon set up shop. Following Ireland’s accession to the

key material, and concrete. Iron constructions were used to reduce the risk of fire in the British textile industry from around 1800. In a flax mill in Shrewsbury, for example, the architect Charles Bage

Site Essen (D). Zollverein Coking Plant WHS Euskirchen (D). Müller Textile Works LVR Industrial Museum Euskirchen (D). Müller Textile Works LVR Industrial Museum Friedrichshafen (D). Zeppelin Museum Furtwangen [...] Jewellery Quarter Blaenavon (GB). Iron Work World Heritage Site Blegny (B). Blegny Mine WHS Bocholt (D). Textile Works LWL Industrial Museum Bochum (D). Railway Museum Bochum (D). Hall of the Century London (GB) [...] Furtwangen (D). German Clock Museum Gent (B). MIAT Museum about Industry, Labour and Textile Goslar (D). Rammelsberg Mining Museum and Vistor Mine WHS Gräfenhainichen (D). FERROPOLIS - Town of Iron Hornu

in the 16th century. Development thus followed a painful, inefficient, up-and-down course. When textile fabrics, coal mines and iron works began appearing in Britain in the mid-18th century, the course

workforce in the Renaissance tradition, but failed to realise it. More successful was Titus Salt, also a textile manufacturer, who had the "Saltaire" settlement built for his employees in West Yorkshire in 1851

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probably why in the 2nd century BC the process of papermaking ... more PRODUCTION Domestic handmade textile production was typical for the pre-industrial age. The father sat at the loom and the women of the

of grapes processed as raisins and “currants”; additionally, France’s first textile factories demanded cotton, and textile production flourished in small cities such as Naoussa and Ambelakia. The heart [...] on account of the processing of agricultural products such as foodstuffs and tobacco, as well as textile manufacturing. Ship construction for the Greek merchant marine also played a role, and remains one [...] industrial impetus: more technically sophisticated industries such as machine tools, chemical and textile production outstripped food and tobacco processing. Mining expanded thanks to the discovery of bauxite