cooperative store are dealt with alongside conflicts with the bosses as a result of the often very hard conditions of work in heavy industry. Damage to the environment and the health were regular subjects of dispute

visited Manchester during the early years of the industrial revolution he was shocked by the working conditions in the factories. In 1848 he and Karl Marx published the “Communist Manifesto” and very soon they

than 200 people were employed in local paper works. Women and children had the filthiest working conditions. They had the unpleasant task of sorting and cutting up the rags which were frequently rotting

woman to qualify as a Doctor in Great Britain. Good transport links and a tidal river created ideal conditions for the production of malt. Barley the principal product of the East Anglian countryside was processed

HISTORY OF BELGIUM Listen The industrial age of the European continent began in Belgium, where conditions were similarly good to those in England: coal had been mined in the valleys of the Meuse and Sambre [...] especially the "Borinage" in the far west - gained a sad notoriety because of the disastrous working conditions and the miserable wages. The workers fought back in bitter strikes and the region developed into

path leading to beauty by way of reason”. In this Osthaus’s primary concern was to improve living conditions in the Ruhrgebiet. He did everything in his power to bring outstanding artists to Hagen and combine

the villa’s guests includes the most powerful people in the world. The technical fittings – air-conditioning, water supplies and fire prevention equipment – were way ahead of their time. Now the villa houses

facilities prisoners from concentration camps were forced to work under inhumane working and living conditions, tens of thousands of them met their death. As the war neared its end von Braun came under increasing

Bryant & May, 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

exhibition area of 13,000 square metres providing visitors with a multimedia panorama of working conditions from the start of the Industrial Revolution to the present day. The aim is to point out the importance

Museum looks back from today´s modern production methods to the old days of inadequate working conditions. The arduous process of making needles from wire is vividly presented here on original 19th century

Britain’s mills was imported from the Americas, where it was grown and harvested under inhumane conditions on plantations by enslaved people who had either been forcibly transported to the Americas as part

introduce his invention with support from the French government. He was paid a fee and pension on condition that he cut off his involvement with the English textile trades. His shuttle was adopted in French

by Werkspoor which used two 1000 hp engines, with 350 hp generators that provided heating, air conditioning and lighting. A typical service was the Edelweiss between Amsterdam, Basle and Zurich, which made

workshop and, of course, the rich selection of rolling stock – are all still in their original condition and reveal the region's railway system as a microcosm of its own, since Basque railways operated

of the buildings of the chemical plant at No 6 Schweidnitzer Weg. It shows the nature of working conditions in the plant, and explains the arrival in the area of refugees in the late 1940s, and taking a

soon afterwards destroyed by fire, and were rebuilt with iron-frames from 1805, and remain in that condition. Manufacturing of woollen cloth at Armley Mills depended entirely on water power until 1850 when

factories’ for which government provided capital for existing companies to build new works, on condition that on the outbreak of hostilities they would be available for munitions production. By 1945 there

sentenced to ten years imprisonment as a war criminal. In 1951 he is prematurely released on the condition that he never sets foot in the Saar region again. The following dispute between France and the Röchling

takes visitors back to the "golden age" of local shipbuilding and its historical living and working conditions.