online "WORK it OUT" ERIH Dance Event 12 September 2021 ERIH Conference 2020 - Oberhausen (D) & ONLINE "WORK it OUT" ERIH Dance Event 13 September 2020 ERIH Conference 2019 - Berlin (D) "Work it Out" ERIH [...] Homepage Service Photo Galleries Erih and Events "WORK it OUT" ERIH Dance Event 1 May 2018 "WORK it OUT" - ERIH Dance Event 1 May 2018 Videos of the Event Please activate video Cookies in order to watch [...] watch this video open cookie preferences The composite video of the shared dance event "WORK it OUT“ ... following the movies of all participating sites: Blegny Mine Word Heritage Site. Blegny (B) Coal Mining
produced cutlery, which can still be seen in Laguiole or Langres (France). Hydropower driving hammer works, bellows and, eventually, grinding mills shaped the trade to such an extend that steam engines only [...] workshops literally exploded. Around 1925, Solingen‘s cottage industry employed around 13,000 home workers, most of them based in Kotten (workshops) owned by themselves. But the advent of the electric motor [...] scheme of the French "Le Thiers" pocket knife has kept an entire generation of small workshops at work and helped the eponymous city to gain new prestige. In Laguiole, the revitalized sector has boosted
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old pit waste, ruins of industrial buildings and opencast mining – the traces of generations of workers who have left their mark on the landscape. Reports by contemporary witnesses in the Rhondda Valley [...] amount of land. During the First World War, the AEG power company set up the Zschornewitz brown coal works in the east-German coalmining area between Leipzig and Cottbus; an early example of a gigantic, functional
the thousands of unemployed workers and agricultural yields remained poor. Many farmers thus travelled back and forth between farmyard and factory: a special class of worker-peasants emerged. Following
site’s own history and visitor offers - other (industrial-) tourism attractions in the region - the work and offers of local/regional industrial heritage networks - the ERIH networkservice information such
Russian workers. As a consequence, the Baltic republics felt threatened in their ethnic identity. Lithuania did not suffer from this as much, because it was possible to recruit factory workers from the [...] and forestry products: paper mills, breweries and Chayim Frenkel’s great tannery in Šiauliai. Metal works were also established, but even in Vilnius, trade operations such as tanneries and furriers predominated
also subject to strict serfdom. For instance, they were only permitted to go fishing when the field work was finished, and rowed out in open skiffs while foreigners were routinely since fishing Icelandic [...] possible to erect new factories such as the Gufunes fertiliser factory and the Iceland State Cement Works. The national energy company Landsvirkjun, founded in 1965, continued to expand its hydroelectric [...] capacity. As a consequence, American and multinational corporations opened up energy-intensive aluminium works in Iceland to take advantage of electricity that was so low in price that it was worthwhile to import
construction of housing as a result of the grave deficit in decent housing caused by the thousands of workers who migrated to booming ... more IND. ARCHITECTURE The continuous improvement in the processing of
like Samuel Colt, developed high-precision machine tools, which produced accurately fitting parts a worker simply had to assemble. The new machine tools quickly became a huge success throughout Europe, because [...] economy on the whole has mostly been overrated. In 1907 for example, no more than 2% of the German work force were employed in the military sector. In fact, most historians agree now that it was not the [...] behind it was again Fritz Haber and on behalf of the industry Carl Duisberg, Head of Bayer chemical works. As Haber kept on experimenting with various new sorts of toxic gases, the Entente felt forced to
leading companies needed increasingly larger administration sections to market mass products. Office work was a dynamic new service sector, and in the United States it triggered off countless new techniques [...] to bottom to enable as many similar storeys to be piled up on top of one another, as one wished. As work became ever more mechanised during the industrial age, manufacturers increased working hours, without [...] further to around 50 hours by the First World War. Increasing leisure in the evenings, and soon on work-free Sundays, meant that a huge variety of new forms of entertainment sprung up in heavily populated
The vehicle became commercially viable on the French market where large engineering and assembly works had taken over motor manufacturing. Thanks to producers like Peugeot, Panhard & Levassor and Renault [...] revolutionary methods of production. As early as 1911 assembly line production began in the British Ford works in Manchester. In 1914 the complete Ford factory in Detroit was operating on the assembly line system
engineer by the name of Cornelius Vermuyden from Zeeland to carry out diking and land reclamation work. Vermuyden was so successful, above all in the low-lying marshlands of East Anglia that, at the end
most important sectors of the British economy, led to attempts to mechanise the work of the spinners. The women workers would take a bundle of extremely thin short fibres, the so-called shear wool, and [...] made redundant and faced starvation. The last skilled workers were replaced by cheaper, specially trained women. In protest, the desperate workers began to destroy the machines and attack anyone who tried [...] two boards with several spindles were used to imitate the hands of the spinning women. Experienced workers were necessary to operate the machines, but nonetheless productivity was much higher than by hand
from the furnace was conducted over the pig iron to heat it. At the same time it was stirred by a worker with a long rod to release the carbon into the air. The result of this "puddling" process was a highly [...] Foundries at Le Creusot in Burgundy. Like the glassworks, also at Le Creusot, and the older salt works at Arc et Senans, the symmetrically designed plant reflected the centralised industrial policies of [...] Charleroi. The German iron industry originated in Upper Silesia and the Saar region: other isolated works arose in the countryside, like those in Wetter in the Ruhrgebiet and Rasselstein, near Neuwied. But
