'factories' is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to refer to places where goods are manufactured or produced. For example: "There are many factories located in the industrial park."
People here forget that the south Asian community worked in the factories.
The deal will safeguard jobs at BAE factories in Lancashire and Yorkshire, and small companies throughout the UK that support production of the aircraft, he added.
Workers in Pyongyang working in shifts at factories need stores to open earlier and close later than usual, the Choson Sinbo report noted.
"I suppose I appealed more to the working-class man, the people who worked in the meat works and the factories," he said in 2007, after announcing his intention to leave New Zealand to play overseas.
Figures released by the National Crime Agency in September estimated that 2,744 people, including 602 children, were trafficked for exploitation in the UK in 2013, a 22% increase on 2012, with some forced to work in brothels, others in domestic servitude, and others exploited in factories, on farms and building sites.
Factories only recently abandoned in The Full Monty era have either been demolished or remain derelict.
The fourth-largest city in Spain had lost its former glory as a manufacturing centre: its factories shuttered, its port decrepit.
Not only was Nike a leader in sending production overseas – making more than 90% of its footwear in Asia – but for years, its overseas factories faced revelations about low wages, long hours, dangerous chemicals and bullying bosses.
During the second world war more than 7 million women worked in factories.
The modern slavery bill provides an opportunity to expand the GLA's remit and resources so that it can start to reach the workers we know are exploited all around us, in factories, construction sites and care homes.
The government was empowered both to control private factories and set up its own, and women were summoned to enlist on a register for work.
