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where raw materials check in and finished dreams clock out, eight hours at a time
means A building or set of buildings where goods are manufactured at scale, typically using machinery and organized labor.
from From the Latin 'factorium,' a place of makers, rooted in 'facere,' to do or make — the same busy verb behind 'factor,' 'fact,' and 'manufacture.' It first traveled through the world of trade: a 'factory' was once a merchant's outpost or trading station abroad, run by agents called 'factors.' Only as the machines of industry roared to life did the word settle into the meaning we know — a house of making rather than a house of buying and selling.
- first mover
- Arkwright's 1771 mill ran on water, never sleeping
- word origin
- From Latin facere, simply to make or do
- hidden cities
- Foxconn's largest plant houses over 300,000 workers
- Ford's gospel
- The moving line cut car assembly from hours to minutes
- dark satanic
- Blake's mills inspired both poetry and labor revolts
ford river rouge plant — largest integrated factory in the world, 1.5 million sq ft in michigan, opened 1927
volkswagen wolfsburg plant — produces over 2,000 vw beetles daily, largest single automotive factory in europe, germany
tesla gigafactory berlin — first european gigafactory, produces model y, opened 2022 in brandenburg