The word sweatshop has long been used to describe factories with low wages and deplorable conditions, but whether a particular factory is a sweatshop is often in the eye of the beholder.
Workers also described factories infested with rats and cockroaches.
Robert Dewer's book, A Savage Factory, describes the factory floor like a constant war between rival street gangs, management vs. the union and workers.
A report by the task force in 2007 criticized the factory's management and described the factory's "most insidious" problem as "a general lack of industriousness".
When Anthony H Wilson died in 2007, the obituaries described the Factory Records founder as "Mr Manchester".
(Satyarthi, in a speech, described a factory where "if they tried to run away, they were hanged upside down on trees and beaten with stones.... Many of them had been burned with cigarettes").
One of the best scenes in Atlas describes a factory that decides to operate on the communist principle "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs".
One of the participating engineers described the factory modelling process as "fairly technocratic" and "top down" — it did not involve "speaking to the guy who was actually working on the mill or the spinning machine".
This person said that Tuesday's statement should not have described the factory lists as "in progress," because all the founding group members submitted their lists in time to meet the deadline.
(Satyarthi, in a speech, described a factory where "if they tried to run away, they were hanged upside down on trees and beaten with stones…. Many of them had been burned with cigarettes").
