Ferraris with custom-built bodywork. Agnelli oversaw the building of Fiat factories in the Soviet Union (in 1970) and later in Brazil and Argentina, and under his leadership Fiat took over most of the leading

Stumm-Halberg employed over 8,000 people. Stumm-Halberg had a dominating approach to personnel: he banned union membership and certain newspapers and ruled that staff could marry only with his permission. As a

lived in a villa next to the mill. After 1842, Luxembourg’s membership of the Zollverein customs union with German states helped their products reach wider markets. In 1851, they expanded at Schläifmille

, where he tried to abolish the 8-hour working day that he had previously negotiated with trades unions. At the time of his death, his industries operated in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the Balkans

made pig iron using charcoal fuel. After 1842 they could export across the whole Zollverein customs union, and in 1845 they expanded production by building the Eich ironworks, which was the most modern iron [...] made pig iron using charcoal fuel. After 1842 they could export across the whole Zollverein customs union, and in 1845 they expanded production by building the Eich ironworks, which was the most modern iron

opened in 1826. He designed the Birmingham & Liverpool Junction Canal (now called the Shropshire Union) followed a straight course over embankments and through cuttings, in contrast to the contour routes

European railway. Čžjžek was involved in banking, having been a founder of the Wiener Bankverein (Vienna union of banks) in 1869. He made a world tour in 1898 to promote the Empire’s exports and was subsequently

continue the business of the consultancy, which was involved during the 1930s with the successful Auto Union P-wagen racing cars. During the Second World War the Wolfsburg factory produced armaments, many of

1936. Before the advent of the Third Reich, which he steadfastly opposed, he strongly advocated a union of European countries free of customs barriers.

and subsequently helped them to form a trade union which organised a strike for better conditions. For a few years she was a leading figure in the ‘New Unionism’, playing a prominent role in the organisation

century. Baekeland established the General Bakelite Co in the United States in 1909, and sold it to Union Carbide in 1939. In Germany he collaborated with a company that treated railway sleepers with tar

from the New Lanark partnership in 1829, set up the unsuccessful Grand National Consolidated Trades Union in 1834, and put forward his views through the New Moral World between 1834 and 1841. He visited France

(1894-1979) La Régle du Jeu . Chanel’s company employed 4000 people by 1935 but she opposed trades unions and had a generally stormy relationship with her workforce, who were all summarily dismissed on the