There is no more horrible page in history than the treatment of the child and women slaves in the English factories in the latter half of the eighteenth century of the Christian Era.
The men and women who had worked the hand-looms for themselves now went into the factories and worked the machine-looms, not for themselves, but for the capitalist owners.
Industries were working short time; many great factories were standing idle against the time when the surplus should be gone; and wages were being cut right and left.
But the articles I found in the factories in Libreville were what, in the Congo, are called "white man's goods" and were of excellent quality and in great variety.
Were they to visit the Congo, they could see for themselves the jungle creeping in and burying their trading posts, their great factories turned into barracks.
In the days of this caliph the first paper factories were founded in Bagdad.
There are factories for coffee-cleaning, employing several hundred hands; for coir-pressing and timber-cutting.
Factories exist near Pnom-Penh for the shelling of cotton-seeds.
Owing to the lack of raw material, the cities have no large factories and industries such as are found even in small American towns, and consequently the inhabitants are obliged to depend upon the traffic with the interior.
The large sugar factories and fruit farms in Natal have the only market for their products in the Transvaal, and the large farms and vineyards in Cape Colony supply the same demand.
In these exceptional mills everything is neat and perfectly clean, all the stock used being new and fresh from the cotton or linen mills, or from factories producing cloth goods, like shirt and corset factories, and others of the same sort.
The rags do not come to the mammoth factories of to-day in bell carts, but by the carload in huge bales gathered from all sections of this great Republic, as well as from lands beyond the eastern and western oceans.
Industry consists only of a large aluminum plant, hydropower facilities, and small obsolete factories mostly in light industry and food processing.
Industry consists primarily of small factories to process passion fruit, lime oil, honey, and coconut cream.
Moreover, the labor of women in factories has tended to disrupt the home, particularly in the case of married women, as we have already seen.
There is economy in buying raw material and in selling finished products when many factories are grouped together.
The employment of women and children in factories is another cause of poverty which needs to be mentioned under this head.
The labor of children in factories and other industrial institutions has sprung very largely from the same general causes.
Central creameries and tobacco-factories would work wonders in increasing the prosperity of certain districts.
The factories were combined under one roof in a model plant, and the business grew to enormous proportions.
All the big ammunition factories which are in the Rhine and Ruhr valleys, like Krupp's, will be wonderful targets for the American bombing machines.
The factories of the empire agreed to furnish materials at cost price, and sufficient money was soon forthcoming to build a second ship.
Third, removal of duties from raw materials would enable factories to produce goods more cheaply, and sell larger quantities at home as well as abroad.
Co-operative factories were started with aid from the city authorities, and had some success.
One of the last decrees of its defenders was, "Destroy all factories employing more than fifteen workers.
Great prosperity of British factories about this time.
Early in the century it became generally known that Robert Owen's factories were unusually profitable, on account of what he did for the intelligence, health, and happiness of the operatives.
What it can and does do is to burden both farms and factories by duties on lumber, glass, coal, wool, woollen goods, and many other imports.
The silk-thread industry at Leek was ruined, so was the silk industry at Macclesfield; the great breweries at Burton were idle, while the hosiery factories of Leicester and the boot factories of Northampton were all shut.
In Stafford the boot factories were idle, and thousands of despairing men were lounging about in Greengate, Eastgate, and other thoroughfares.
Mills and factories in all directions had closed down, either because of the military danger from the operations of the German armies, or because of the want of orders, or, again, because raw materials were not procurable.
The lace and hosiery factories had with one accord closed on Tuesday, and the great Market Place was now filled day and night by thousands upon thousands of unemployed mill-hands of both sexes.
At first the New England factories got their sand from Demerara, brought as ballast, and the quality was good.
Moreover, all over the country mills and factories were now being handed over to the government for war work; and to them, too, great quantities of raw material had to be sent, and the finished product removed to its destination.
They were especially valuable in the munitions factories of England, as shown above.
I have not taken into account the loss represented for the future production of France by the transformation of so manyfactories which for four years were exclusively devoted to war munitions.
By a strange coincidence, all the three factories in my neighbourhood produce only the articles necessary for balls.
This new form of oppression held the people still tighter, so that nine-tenths of the Russian working-people are still working for their landlords and in the factories to pay these taxes.
It's the influence of Canucs who have gone to the factories of Maine.
There was a law in Oregon which decreed that the working day of women in factories and laundries should be ten hours long.
He thought of vast tracts of land in his own state, tracts he could buy cheap, through dummy companies, places which could be made very suitable for the giant factories necessary to manufacture spaceships.
The excitement penetrated the senator's rosy dream of vast acreages being sold at a huge profit, giant walls of factoriesgoing up under his remote-control ownership.
I was surprised to learn on making a round of the motorcycle factories that the motorcycle engineers have produced machines to meet the needs of men and women, too, for that matter, in every walk of life.
Large properties and capital are indispensable, because they enable men to organize companies and provide work for the laboring classes, and the work in mills and factories is by no means so dreadful as you represent it.
Only the larger and more firmly established branch plants of the principal factories have maintained a fixed location.
Recognizing his earnestness, and having really no desire to plant factories in Oudh, Clive wisely gave way on that one point.
Its territory in India consisted of but a few square miles round the factories its agents had established, and for which they paid an annual rental to the native governments.
Very few cheese factories have made any provision for regulating the temperature of the curing-room.
The loss due to freezing is an item which is entirely avoided in factories properly heated.
The composition of the milk of different breeds differs to such a degree that whole series of factories are found with lower or higher figures than these averages on account of dominant presence of particular kinds of cattle.
Showing the cheese factories in the Pacific coast states.
The cheeses are made on farms and in factories from which they are transported for ripening to cool valleys of the Alps, principally near Lecco (Fig.
Swiss, Limburger and Brick cheese factories usually do not require a large supply of milk; therefore the factories may be built close together.
The approximate limits and characters outlined for Camembert still leave a considerable latitude for variations in practice which characterize the output of particular factories in a producing group.
The same principle holds in cheese factories in which other varieties of cheese are made; the floors should be on one level so far as possible.
In some factories the curd and part of the whey are dipped into a curd sink.
The result was that the dairy-men could not supply both the cities and the cheese factories with milk.
Cheese factories were opened in Ohio and Wisconsin about 1860.
Table XXIV indicates that the number of cheesefactories has decreased but that the production has increased.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "factories" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
