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Filmed in Bangladesh, one of the world’s largest textile manufacturers, this resource explores the social cost of our cheap textiles. With footage filmed inside a number of Bangladeshi textile factories,...
A documentary directed by Olivier Stockman about the Peek Freans biscuit factory in Bermondsey and its closing down in the late 1980s. This film also looks back at nearly 100 years of the factory’s life...
A training series for creating a new plant floor layout using the systematic layout planning (SLP) process. Defines the fundamentals of every layout plan and explaining the four phases of SLP - location,...
In 1942 the Rover company built 5k of tunnels to house a hidden factory of over 26,000 square metres in the sandstone hill at Drakelow, near Kidderminster. Rover was building parts for radial aero engines...
Examines the production process in a Glasgow factory now operated by United Biscuits. Looks at the operation of the plant in 1928 and compares it with present processes. Two main issues are raised: the...
An introduction looks at the problems of history, the factories today and the making of a modern car. Part 1: 1915-1945: looks at the early days at Morris Motors - the work, the unions, the search for work...
In two parts. Relates the story of the factories at Cowley through the words, pictures and momentos of the people who work or there or used to work there from 1915 to the 1980s.
The present-day, highly automated, factory at Talcross, Glasgow, contrasts with the labour-intensive original factory of McVitie & Price. A black-and-white film shot in the 1930s is followed by a colour...
A record of the last Black Country hand steel rolling mill (John Bradley & Co.) made in 1982, only 3 days before it closed. The production follows the process from raw material to the final rolled section,...
Cinema Action documentary filmed over five years showing the impact on one family living in a South Wales valley community of developments in the national and global political economy which result in local...
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