At least 3,000 people have either come and gone: either fired or quit. ibid. worker
Man, they treat these people like shit in here. ibid. pro-union dude
Fuyao paid LRI over $1 million to keep workers from organizing a union. ibid. caption
Since the 1970s, the union avoidance industry has grown steadily as average wages and union membership have declined. ibid.
Recently, we fired a lot of union supporters. ibid. supervisor to chairman
When you think of great British chocolates, there’s one name that everyone knows: Cadbury’s. With almost 200 years of history, Cadbury is one of the nation’s best selling brands. It’s a national treasure. Classic colours. Inside ... s2e1: Cadbury: The Real Chocolate Factory, Channel 5 2018
A worker’s utopia of cricket pitches and its own village behind. For almost 140 years this is where [Bourneville] the taste of Britain has been made. The Bourneville site has over 2,000 employees, including office workers and factory workers. It also boasts Cadbury World, a popular tourist attraction, bringing in some 3,000 visitors a day. ibid.
The drink Cocoa, which he sold as Coca Essence, would become the saviour of society and the beginning of the Cadbury dream. ibid.
It was produced in response to an invasion from Switzerland back in the 1880s. ibid.
‘The Milk Tray Man he was this dynamic James Bond type character.’ ibid.
The British brand would have another fight on its hands … In 2009 the Americans arrived with a hostile takeover bid from multinational conglomerate Craft Foods. ibid.
Atari factory: ‘It wasn’t like work; we had rock-n-roll music blasting through the factory.’ Game Changers: Inside the Video Game Wars, Elaine Shirley, employee, History 2019
Over the road Boulton built the world’s first factory to pioneer mass production. But by 1848 that factory had closed and few factories like it were built in the city … Birmingham became an industrial boom town but without the factory revolution that was the hallmark of so many other industrial cities. Britain’s Biggest Dig III, BBC 2020
In the north of England factories began to close. Tony Blair insisted that it was a price the country had to pay if it wanted to be a part of what he called the world economy. Adam Curtis, Can’t Get You Out of My Head IV: But What if the People are Stupid? BBC 2021
My father, who didn’t like being called dad, only Maurice, photographed the beauty and might of post-war industrial Britain. Maurice showed the triumphs of British industry before it was destroyed and whole communities laid to waste. Nick Broomfield, Arena: My Father and Me, BBC 2021
‘He set the bar high. He made factories look glamorous. He made them look sexy. He made them look really interesting.’ ibid. Professor Steve Macleod
My father wasn’t interested in showing conflict. He was a pacifist through and through. ibid.
On April 24 2013 a factory building in Bangladesh collapsed, killing more than a thousand people. Many of those who died in the Rana Plaza were making clothes for western companies. This is the story of the worst industrial disaster of the 21st century. This World: Clothes to Die For ***** BBC 2014
1998: Clinton bombs ‘weapons factories’ in Sudan. Factory turns out to be making Aspirin. Michael Moore, Bowling for Columbine, 2002
Life on the factory floor was cheap, a combination of lethal machinery and long hours meant that gruesome accidents, even death, were never far away. Tony Robinson’s History of Britain s1e2: Victorians, Channel 5 2022
But Kelloggs from Michigan won us over. And in 1938 opened Europe’s largest cereal factory in Manchester. The Secret World of Cereal, Channel 4 2023
As early as 1935 shadow factories were being built. Rob Bell, The Buildings that Fought Hitler VI: Keep the Home Fires Burning, Yesterday 2020
This is the story of a factory and some broken safety regulations. Acre Mill, Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire. The owners, Cape Asbestos, a big international company, closed it down last year. But Acre Mill won’t easily be forgotten. World in Action: The Dust at Acre Mill, ITV 1971
The asbestos industry was warned in 1930 by an official report that asbestos dust could cause an incurable lung disease, asbestosis. ibid.
Some of those regulations were broken at the mill. ibid.
Electrician: Where was you before?
Bernie: Here and there. Play for Today: Shut Down, BBC 1973
He’s very mysterious about his background. ibid. electrician
You’ve got to give me full marks for that. I knew he’d been in the nick. ibid. supervisor
Let’s face it, you are very suspect. ibid. electrician
Life is a continual struggle, a continuous struggle between us and them. Play for Today: The Factory, Harry, BBC 1981
We must observe our own laid down standards of safety. ibid.
In the end they kick you in the teeth. ibid. Tommy
A man’s not a man unless he goes out to a job every day. I mean, that’s his function, isn’t it? ibid. Harry
The soullessness of the social results of Victorian commercialism – he [Ruskin] thinks works is part of life. It shouldn’t deaden you, it should fulfil you. Matthew Collings, This is Civilisation III: Save Our Souls, BBC 2007
Ruskin damned the factories where man is cut off from himself. ibid.