Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.

After she is sent to small-town Minnesota to oversee the restructuring of a manufacturing plant, a high-powered consultant from Miami finds her priorities changing.

"In 1933, in the heart of Black Country, England, Cradle Cross is a town out of time, still reeling from the Great War yet linked to a distant past of ancient customs as well as to a button factory in terminal decline. Into this exotically grim environment arrives Isa Fly, a mysterious white-haired young woman from the coast. She is a magnetic presence who exerts a romantic pull on everyone she meets. Ruby Tailor, motherless and thirteen years old,...

Provides a detailed account of the disastrous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City, which claimed the lives of 146 garment workers in 1911, and examines the impact of this event on the nation's working conditions and labor laws.

Geronimo Stilton regrets that he is too busy to celebrate Christmas in New Mouse City and wishes he could fly to Santa's toy factory.

This book, from the award-winning author of The Way Things Work, takes readers of all ages on a journey through a fictional mill town called Wicksbridge. With words and pictures, David Macaulay reveals fascinating details about the planning, construction, and operation of the mills-and gives us a powerful sense of the day-to-day lives of Americans in this era.

A look inside the John Deere Harvester Works in East Moline, Illinois, to see how the best-selling combines in the world are made. Follows each step of the process. Includes bonus footage of combine manufacturing in 1959.

It is up to the Thea sisters to investigate when an Ecuadorian chocolate factory known for its environmental practices begins malfunctioning and the owner suspects sabotage.

On Christmas Eve, young Owen visits a magical factory run by animals, where he both teaches and learns some interesting things about snowmen.

In 1927, at the urging of twenty-one-year-old Harriet, Mrs. Livingston reluctantly recalls her experiences at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, including miserable working conditions that led to a strike, then the fire that took the lives of her two best friends, when Harriet, the boss's daughter, was only five years old. Includes historical notes.