Imagine being a 45 or 50 year old man or woman who has supported the family by showing up each day for a factory shift only to find yourself now facing life after the factory has shut down in the face of a move offshore or as a result of an economy that put the owner out of business.
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There are vivid, energetic sketches of life on the factory floor, including a gruesomely exact scene in which one of the workers loses three fingers from his left hand.
Big, crazy parties were the quintessential New York event in the sixties, just as real-estate closings are now, and, at times, life in the Factory was an endless, desultory bash.
The play, directed by Sheffield Theatres artistic director Daniel Evans, stays true to the tale of the unemployed Sheffield mates who find themselves on the scrap heap of life after their factory shuts.
"We are protesting about pensions, emergency taxes, the high cost of life, " retired factory worker Kyriakos Anastassiadis told the Associated Press.
At a site 50 miles from Chengdu, the Sichuan capital, a dramatic rescue operation took place when signs of life emerged from a flattened factory.
Located in the Main Street Life complex, a renovated textile factory, The Bioscope shows a programme of African-interest features as well as international films and documentaries.
The absurdity of the current environment reached a peak when the DOJ, and agents from, get this, the U.S. Fish and Wild Life Service, raided the Nashville factory of the legendary Gibson Guitar company.
Can Congress require you to remain in the restaurant, hotel, factory or wheat business every month for life?
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Mominur Rahman, a 27-year-old garment worker, fractured his spine jumping for his life from the third floor of the Tazreen Fashions factory outside Dhaka, which burnt down in November, killing over 100 people.
In the vast factory complex, the only sign of life is the hum of a petrol generator as crews work on the abandoned interior - the empty spaces of the fenced-off car park testament to the thousands who would at one time have worked there.
The continent's vast interior - "the bush" - captured the first settler's imagination, giving the colonies their mythology of shearers, miners and bushrangers. (Before 1903, a swim during daylight hours could get you arrested.) But as the 20th Century dawned, the coastal cities boomed and rural life was eclipsed by the new nation's factory jobs and suburbs.
One wonders how Doug Von Allmen, who began life in poverty, working as a window washer and factory grunt, became a man intolerant of any "creaking" on his yacht, irritated by the slightest whooshing of the air-conditioning system and concerned with the placement of gold-plated toilet-paper dispensers.
So a factory that was empty and dark will come back to life.
Robert Bigelow, a budget hotel-chain mogul, built a life-size space station in his well-guarded Bigelow Aerospace factory in Nevada.
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Using the services of Jasper Maskelyne, who in civilian life had been a conjurer, the British faked extensive damage at the Mosquito factory.
Iqbal Masih from Pakistan, who was recognized posthumously, was a debt slave in a carpet factory who fought for the rights of debt slave children during his life.
Most of those killed were female factory workers - teenagers who'd come to Juarez in search of a better life.
If Wal-Mart's audits find factories that have structural damage or life-threatening conditions, "we will immediately ask them to cease production, inform the factory buyers and the government, and insist the workers don't go back to facilities, " said Rajan Kamalanathan, Wal-Mart's head of ethical sourcing, in an interview.
My brother could have made life easier by not having Pura over so much or by limiting her to when Mami was at the factory, but when had he ever done the reasonable thing?
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