A factory, manufacturing plant or a production plant is an industrial facility, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with See more

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Much of management theory developed in response to the need to control factory processes. Assumptions on the hierarchies of unskilled, semi … See more

In Britain, a shadow factory is one of a number of manufacturing sites built in dispersed locations in times of war to reduce the risk of disruption due to enemy air-raids and often with the dual purpose of increasing manufacturing capacity. Before World War II Britain … See more

Max Weber considered production during ancient and medieval times as never warranting classification as factories, with methods of production and the contemporary … See more

Before the advent of mass transportation, factories' needs for ever-greater concentrations of labourers meant that they typically grew up in an urban setting or fostered their own See more

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