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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Factory system"”.
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Historical trends in occupational health and safety in Victoria
… from its conception in attempts to regulate the factory system in the mid-nineteenth century until the passing of the Occupational Health and Safety Act in 1985 in Victoria.
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Industrial Development and Location in Leeds North of the river Aire, 1775-1914
… the period 1775 to 1914, during which the factory system was introduced to most branches of manufacturing and there was unprecedented expansion in both the population and the built-up area of the borough. The 19th century witnessed steady progress from a system of industrial production …
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The textile industry in early eighteenth century Lancashire
… to three generations before the arrival of the factory system of textile production. It is based on a county-wide study of occupations recorded in Church of England parish registers for the I 720s, a source which has, with the exception of a few localised case studies, hitherto been ignored by …
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Relations of production and exchange in the fishing and fish processing industries of North East Scotland.
… mechanization, associated with the spread of a factory system of organization would supercede hand technologies and small scale pattern of organization in a relatively smooth, linear, unidirectional process. An empirical examination of the industry showed that this has not been the case. The …
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An investigation into the use of knowledge representation in computer-integrated manufacturing
In a certain automobile factory, batch-painting of the body types in colours is controlled by an allocation system. This tries to balance production with orders, whilst making optimally-sized batches of colours. Sequences of cars entering painting cannot be optimised for easy selection of colour …
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An Evaluation of Laboratory and Test Road Environments and Electric Vehicle Warning Sounds and Systems
… additive sounds produced by two additive sound systems: a modified version of the factory equipped system and a prototype exciter transducer-based system. All additive sounds and systems were first evaluated for regulatory compliance at stationary, 10 km/h, and 20 km/h conditions and then …
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Sport and the Victorian City: The development of commercialised spectator sport, Bradford 1836-1908
… in urbanisation, the adoption of the factory system, regularised working hours and growth in disposable income. Bradford’s sporting culture, however, was also a product of the city’s shifting social structures, which had been shaped by its unique economy. As a consequence, Bradford …
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The Body Machinic: Technology, Labor, and Mechanized Bodies in Victorian Culture
… the emergence of this dichotomy in the 1830s "Factory Question" debates: while critics of the factory system described workers as tools appended to monstrous, living machines, apologists claimed large-scale industrial machinery relieved human toil by replicating the laboring body in structure …