built relatively late – shortly after 1900. For this reason it is still in an impressively good condition. Nowadays the colliery near Beringen in Limburg (Belgium) is the site of the Flemish Mining Museum [...] pithead towers. And those who still have the time and energy, can then pay a visit to the neighbouring working class housing estate, complete with its mining cathedral.

ral jewel. During its working life it was a self enclosed world cut off from the surrounding area by high walls. The mining company not only dictated everyday working conditions but also the miners´ private [...] gives a vivid picture of the strict hierarchy at the pit and the close intermeshing of the various working processes. Visitors can experience a typical day in the life of a collier, enter the director´s office

can don a miner’s helmet and lamp before descending into the underworld to find out what everyday conditions were like for the miners who once worked here. Their guides are themselves former miners. On the [...] miners to arrive. Even the steam-driven winding wheels which were in operation till 1970 are still working. In addition the museum has an audio-visual exhibition which takes visitors on a journey through

more jute factories than anywhere else in the world. One of them was the Verdant Works. The last working jute mill in Britain is now an exciting museum. Here visitors can find out more about the past history [...] in the hold of a clipper from India to Dundee before being confronted with the appalling factory conditions under which children were forced to work. They are then given the chance to contrast this to the

from copper, lead and zinc ores. All this is accompanied by vivid sound effects of everyday working conditions. The mine was inscribed as a World Cultural Heritage site in 1992 – along with the former Imperial

lime furnaces, alum plants and mines – not to speak of serious illnesses in the course of their working-lives. All this is recalled in an exhibition entitled "Masters of Fire", housed in the former forge [...] the workers, the back-breaking work which they had to endure, and their poverty-stricken living conditions are also strongly featured. Whereas the exhibition indoors explains the work and social background

sometimes perilous, working conditions. A new modern building is dedicated to the history of glassmaking, whereas a hall containing noisy drop hammers, hissing fireplaces and working machine tools demonstrates

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 [...] 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

months he wrote "The Condition of the Working Classes in England", which was published in 1845. It reflects the anger and the guilt of a member of a mercantile family at the living conditions that observed in

at the Polytechnic in Stuttgart, before travelling to enlarge his understanding of engineering, working on the gas engine of J J Lenoir in Paris, gaining experience in a locomotive works at Strasburg, [...] other ventures he worked closely with Wilhelm Maybach (1846-1929), whom he first met when he was working in a charitable home, the Bruderhaus in Reutlingen, where Maybach was an inmate. Daimler parted, [...] Frederick Simmons bought the right to make the Phoenix and to use the Daimler name in Great Britain, on condition that Gottlieb Daimler returned to the company. Struggles with board members continued until Daimler`s

sordid detail, based on his reading in social history, and on scientific observation of working and living conditions in industrial areas. For the industrial historian the two most important of more than [...] The novels of Emile Zola depict with startling clarity the inhuman and oppressive aspects of working class life in industrial Europe in the nineteenth century. Zola was born in Paris, the son of a naturalized

production 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

station of 1841-44, both of which remain. He was best-known as the designer of apartments for the working class. In 1835 he built the Sailors` Home in Well Street, Whitechapel (now demolished), the prototype [...] intelligently-designed tenements. In 1844 he became a founder member of the Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring classes for whom his first projects were a group of model dwellings in Pentonville [...] philanthropic builder John Newson, which still remains. Roberts designed the model houses for the working class that were displayed at the Great Exhibition in 1851. It was acknowledged that the cottages

from the period, all kept in pristine condition. There are over 29 working stationary steam engines including four large pumping beam engines, the oldest working electrical generator in Britain and a large

at the relationship between the Earth and the Sun, followed by the history of mining and the working conditions of the miners. A show tunnel leads into the former pithead bath, which encourages visitors

to stories? Perhaps stories telling about industrial history, or about people and their working or living conditions? Here you are right ... more BROCHURE: EUROPEAN INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE From its very beginning

demanding higher wages, and demands for a twelve-hour working day were soon followed by demands for a ten-hour day. The first improvements in working conditions occurred after a law was introduced in 1842 to [...] exploded into major cities: here the masses were forced to live under appalling conditions in crowded slums and damp cellars. Working hours were around 14 hours a day and the workers were slaves to the rhythm [...] 19th century. All these developments were paralleled by stronger workers' organisations. The first working-class political party was set up in 1863 in Germany; this was followed by the SPD in 1869. It was

great deal of European common ground waiting to be discovered. For a start, the living and working conditions of the industrial age were more or less the same, assuming that a miner in the Ruhr or the

boosted by the vast forests of this Alpine country. Concurrently, industrial working conditions gradually improved, working time was capped at 11 hours and health and accident insurance was introduced [...] core region, where Karl Wittgenstein, "Austria’s Krupp", formed the established mining and iron-working operations into a powerful cartel. Textile production developed in the Vorarlberg region, and in

establish a reputation as a historian and to found a museum of working class life in the town of his birth. Karl Flanner was born in Flugfeld, a working class quarter of the industrial city of Wiener Neustadt [...] August 1939 he was arrested by the Gestapo. He was imprisoned, then made to work under slave labour conditions as a weaver, and at one time weighed only 45 kilos. After about four years he was transferred to