In the 2000s alone America shed nearly 6m factory jobs. Such work often offered high-school leavers a route to a stable, ...

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.

On Wednesday, the United Workers Union announced it had reached agreement with Peters Ice Cream, Saputo and Lactalis for wage increases for more than 1,000 dairy factory workers. In a ...

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.

Dairy factory workers in Victoria have returned to work ... Mr Billing noted that in the past when there had been milk blockades, the Victorian government had stepped in, using emergency ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...