People would get accustomed to their own part of the factory, and the neighbouring workers, and became familiar with the peculiarities of their own machines. A first visit was frightening ...

"The big ones in Victorian times were accidents ... "In the middle of the first world war, just in factories about 1,500 people were killed annually. We now have about 230 workers killed annually.

“I work in a plastics factory and my conditions are terrible ... Click here for the coverage of the SEP Victorian election campaign.

FACTORY workers at International Flavors and Fragrances (IFF) began camping out in the lunch room in protest after negotiations for a new workplace agreement fell through.

A Victorian farmer has been forced to dump ... In a separate industrial action, dairy factory workers have also walked off the job today. About 1,400 staff are on strike at 14 Saputo ...

Victorian society did not recognise sexual ... But as early as the 1860s, women workers in Glasgow’s factories began to fight back. The decline of the textile industry exacerbated unemployment ...

People would get accustomed to their own part of the factory, and the neighbouring workers, and became familiar with the peculiarities of their own machines. A first visit was frightening ...

Throughout the period, a high proportion of factory workers were women (more than 60 per cent of the workforce at the end of the period) and children, many of whom were taken out of school at the ...

Trade unions were becoming a force to be reckoned with in late Victorian times ... between neighbours as well as between workers and employers. But factory society did extend beyond the factory ...