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Following World War II, the U.S. government continued its many contracts with large companies that built its weapons, aircraft, and vehicles. Factories that could build both commercial automobiles and military jets were part of what President Dwight Eisenhower later called the "military-industrial complex", and were promoted by military leaders as vital in the continuing cold war with the Soviet Union.
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Almost 20 years after Henry Ford introduced the Model T and revolutionized the automobile industry with his efficient assembly line system of manufacturing, intense competition with other automakers prompted the Ford Motor Company to usher in a new automobile. The Model A came in a variety of styles and colors, and included additional passenger comforts not previously available on the Model T.
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The Munitions of War Act of 1915 allowed British women to temporarily fill the many industrial jobs left empty by soldiers fighting abroad in World War I. However, the Restoration of Prewar Practices Act of 1919 forced women workers to relinquish their jobs when the men returned from war.
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Manufacturing of corrugated boxes. Hinde and Dauch Paper Company Corrugated Fibre Shipping Boxes and Packing Materials. Film on making cardboard boxes, ca. 1920s, with lots of looking at camera and interaction between workers and camera. Scenes of their Cleveland, Ohio factory, plus views of other companies using their boxes.
10) March
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There are over 250 million migrant workers in China, twice the entire population of Japan. Drawn by the promise of better pay, many find work in factories in coastal provinces like Guangdong. But far away from home and caught up in the throes of the production line, many workers find themselves emotionally cut-off. Set against the epic backdrop of the world's greatest manufacturing nation, we witness the struggles of China's pioneering factory owners...
11) Ambition
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For over thirty years, China has been little more than a giant factory for the world. But that is changing. Today, the economic behemoth wants to take on the world on its own terms powered by its might and ambition. But corporations are not the only ones dreaming bigger, factory workers are also claiming for more: higher pay, better conditions, more rights. The ambition for all things bigger and better is driving China's factories and people to ever...
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Designed by the architects Jan Brickman and Leendert Van der Vlugt, supervised by Kees Van der Leuw, the boss of Van Nelle, the factory is the most important and the most accomplished example of industrial architecture in the modern movement. The result of a cross between Taylorism and Bauhaus, the Van Nelle factory at Rotterdam, built between 1926 and 1931, is a gigantic factory in which, up to the 80s, they processed tobacco, coffee and tea. Rather...