Factory : All The Best Free Flash Games Relating To Factory

A factory is a manufacturing place encompassing a set of buildings within which human and material tools cohabit to allow a massive production. A factory is also known as a plant. Factories have some characteristic features like warehouses for raw materials, production lines, storage spaces... They tend to look all the same, and their surface are usually steel-made. In the UK, the typical factory has a one-sided roof, a stone chimney and a red-bricks structure.

Factory cropped up in the late 19th century, along with the industrial revolution which started first in Great Britain. Beforehand, commercial ventures were family-run businesses, and people working for the production of a good were craftsmen, dedicated to work on all the manufacturing stages from start to finish. A bit before the industrial revolution, workshops or manufactures emerged in several cities. The boss needed to employ several workers to complete difficult tasks in engineering spaces such as shipyards...

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The manufacturing tools and machines invented in the 19th century changed drastically the work system: societies shifted from a craft-based production system to a chain production system, in order to suit to the new needs of mass-consumption. The use of a massive workforce was needed to complete the many tasks rendered possible by the mechanization of the production. The new infrastructures had to provided more products and faster than before. The fashionable words were productivity and division of labor. At first, workers have no salaries: they were sheltered and given food in the workplace.

But they earned a salary little by little. Quickly two classes emerged: the workers, and those owning the capital. The Marxist doctrine claimed at the same time that a wage-based society constraining workers to sale their labor power to survive, serves only the cause of the ruling class. Capitalism defenders on the other hands sing the praises of the division of labor.

Throughout the 20th century, factories grew an prospered alongside several concepts: taylorism, fordism..Workers became more and more specialized into one repetitive task in the production lines. They still cohabit in plants with machines which replaced the handwork.

What a wonderful world if all the factories could be like in « Charlie and the chocolate factory »...

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