Before the twentieth century, ordinary farm workers and factory workers were usually illiterate.

The American Italian fattoria lost its original meaning " farm " in favour of " factory " owing to the phonetically similar surface-cognate English " factory " ( cf.

A landmark in Greenwich Village ’ s cultural landscape, it was built as a farm silo in 1817, and also served as a tobacco warehouse and box factory before Edna St. Vincent Millay and other members of the Provincetown Players converted the structure into a theatre they christened the Cherry Lane Playhouse, which opened on March 24, 1924, with the play The Man Who Ate the Popomack.

She has worked with Farm Sanctuary to raise awareness about the cruelty of factory farming and to promote the compassionate treatment of farm animals.

While the treatment of factory workers or farm hands often varied depending on the individual employer, Polish laborers as a rule were compelled to work longer hours for lower wages than Western Europeans – in many cities, they were forced to live in segregated barracks behind barbed wire.

In the view of the young orthodox Marxist intellectuals, such as Jaime Wheelock, economic development had turned Nicaragua into a nation of factory workers and wage-earning farm laborers.

Soon, though, cream-separation technology became small and inexpensive enough to introduce an additional efficiency: the separation was accomplished on the farm, and the cream alone shipped to the factory.

There was also an " office of the future ," a climate-controlled " farm factory ," an automated offshore kelp and plankton harvesting farm, a vision of the schools of the future with " electronic storehouses of knowledge ," and a vision of the many recreations that technology would free humans to pursue.

The term is frequently borrowed for other uses, such as raising one species of livestock in a factory farm, or even in fields other than agriculture to describe any group dominated by a single variety, e. g. in the field of musicology to describe the dominance of the American and British music-industries in pop music, or in the field of computer science to describe a group of computers all running identical software.

A dairy farm produces milk and a dairy factory processes it into a variety of dairy products.

Later, cream was separated from the milk by machine, on the farm, and the cream was transported to a factory for buttermaking.

In 1999, a North Carolina grand jury handed down indictments against pig-farm workers on Belcross Farm in Camden County, the first indictments for animal cruelty on a factory farm in the United States, after a three-month PETA investigation produced film of the workers beating the animals.

Most kibbutzim are not self-sufficient and have to employ non-kibbutz members as farm workers ( or later factory workers ).

The business community featured two banks, two hotels, multiple grocery drug, and hardware stores along with restaurants, a farm implement dealer and factory manufacturing wagons and buggies.

During its heyday, Meadowlands was home to a number of businesses including a Ford dealership ( which also carried New Holland farm machinery ), a bank, a farmer's cooperative store, a grocery store, a commercial laundry, a cheese factory, various restaurants, a movie theater and the Toivola – Meadowlands School, a K – 12 institution.

The economy of the town consisted of a garment factory and a farm.

Beginning as a farm town, Bushnell grew to encompass a railroad depot, cheese factory, and grain elevator at one point.

The Town of Marshfield is the site of the large industrial wind factory installation ( wind farm ) called the Blue Sky Green Field Wind Farm, along with neighboring Town of Calumet.

The requisitioning of farm produce was replaced by a tax system ( a fixed proportion of the crop ), and the peasants were free to sell their surplus ( at a state-regulated price )-although they were encouraged to join state farms ( Sovkhozes, set up on land expropriated from nobles after the 1917 revolution ), in which they worked for a fixed wage like workers in a factory.

In 2008, animal rights organization PETA sent members to work undercover at a pig factory farm in Iowa to investigate allegations of animal rights abuses, then released a video record showing workers treating the pigs cruelly and without regard for animal rights.

" Factory farming " is a term referring to the process of raising livestock in confinement at high stocking density, where a farm operates as a factory — a practice typical in industrial farming by agribusinesses.

Intensive piggeries ( or hog lots ) are a type of factory farm ( also known as an AFO or CAFO in the U. S .) specialized in the raising of domestic pigs up to slaughter weight.

In the pre-Civil War years, the South argued that the slave was not less humanely treated than the factory worker of the North.

At about the time the Marsden enterprise was getting under way, the Vail Light and Lumber Company started construction of a chair stock factory on the site of the present Bennington Co-operative Creamery, intending to use its surplus power for generating electricity.

The `` leapfrog '' was a phenomenon of the railroad and the steam turbine, and the time when the belts of residence surrounding the old factory area were not yet blighted.

This factory was so successful it remained in use until the 1960s, with the workshop still visible at HM Dockyard in Portsmouth, and still containing some of the original machinery.

One of the earliest examples of almost modern factory layout, designed for easy material handling, was the Bridgewater Foundry.

His first job in the United States was as a factory worker in a bobbin factory.

His first job at age 13 in 1848 was as a bobbin boy, changing spools of thread in a cotton mill 12 hours a day, 6 days a week in a Pittsburgh cotton factory.

Ethernet had become essentially universal by 1990, and it was time to build Ethernet into Macs direct from the factory.

In September 2011 it was announced that production of the Rapide would be moved to the company's factory in Gaydon, production will begin in the second half of 2012 and will see all of the current Aston Martin range produced from the Gaydon facility.

The first actual glue factory was founded in Holland in the early 18th century.

A former cloth warehouse was converted into a small theatre in 1974, and the alternative culture center KIFF ( Culture in the fodder factory ) was established in a former animal fodder factory.

During the next century Aegina was one of the three principal states trading at the emporium of Naucratis, and it was the only state of European Greece that had a share in this factory.

After the car factory decline, it was used by the M. O. D.

A factory was built near Bound Brook, New Jersey in 1929.

A new factory opened in Tyseley, Birmingham, England around 1928 and was subsequently demolished in 1998.

Bundaberg rum was first produced in 1888, production ceased from 1907 to 1914 and from 1936 to 1939 after fires, the second of which caused rum from the factory to spill into the nearby Burnett River.

Modern Times ( 1936 ), which depicted factory workers in dismal conditions, was the first of his films that was seen by critics to contain an anti-capitalist message, although Chaplin denied the film being in any way political.

As more detailed knowledge of biology and biochemistry developed, the colloidal theory was replaced by the macromolecular theory, which explains an enzyme as a collection of identical huge molecules that act as very tiny machines, freely moving about between the water molecules of the solution and individually operating on the substrate, no more mysterious than a factory full of machinery.

A more speculative, more complex " chip factory " was specified to produce the computer and electronic systems, but the designers also said that it might prove practical to ship the chips from Earth as if they were " vitamins.