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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...
A film made by a women’s film-making collective about the history of women workers in Australia. It explores the economic and social position of women in work and their complex motives for working and...
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,...
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.
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...
Concerned with the wartime introduction of female labour into industry to keep the shipyards, munitions factories etc. in operation. The director concentrates on five of the 700 personal accounts that she...
Set in industrial environments, the films show how basic concepts in materials and engineering science are applied to the business of manufacturing. Individual programmes describe and illustrate the...
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