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Examines whether economic changes are due to conscious actions of individuals, social classes and groups (agency) or whether changes result from the nature of the economic system itself (structure). Takes...
Etna Brickworks in West Lothian was opened in 1880 and for over a century produced refractories and common building bricks using a method that remained largely unchanged. In addition to the 28-chamber kiln...
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...
In America the gun industry was the first to move from handcrafting to mass production, a development which is re-created here with the help of a gunsmith, a museum of early machine tools and a late...
Henry Ford’s Model T is for many the symbol of mass production. Ford followed a tradition of scientific management, analysing work practice and reorganising so as to reduce the need for skill and...
The presenter, an historian of the chemical industry, demonstrates the chemistry involved in the three principal historical processes for the production of alkali. He visits sites associated with the...
The series examines some of Indias’s more successful development schemes which are transforming the lives of communities throughout the sub-continent. The programmes focus on the individual lives of men,...
Gives an impression of the research, development, production and marketing operations at BASF’s plant at Ludwigshafen by following the development of an unnamed product from laboratory to new plant. Then...
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