He took a feverishly active interest in the parliamentary life of England and France; he attended university lectures and visited factories, railways, ports, hospitals, schools, and prisons.
The HSE oversees farms and building sites (the two most lethal workplaces by far), mines, factories, railways, chemical works and the like.
Strategic bombing, approach to aerial bombardment designed to destroy a country's ability to wage war by demoralizing civilians and targeting features of an enemy's infrastructure such as factories, railways, and refineries that are essential for the production and supply of war materials.
They said, 'Look, the whole purpose of this state is to clear a path for these new things' – factories, railways, whatever.
Its major industries include oil mills, metal-fabricating factories, railway workshops, and small-car factories.
But a business vehicle designed to finance caravans traversing the Arabian Peninsula proved ill suited to building long-lasting assets, such as factories and railways.
The most ambitious and complicated part of the Olympic building programme, the project involved rapidly creating a new seafront neighbourhood to replace abandoned factories and railways.
Factories and railways in Catalonia were taken over by workers' committees, and in hundreds of villages in Catalonia, Levante, and Andalusia the peasants seized the land and established libertarian communes like those described by Kropotkin in The Conquest of Bread.
Back in the nineteen-fifties and sixties, many economists were confident that newly independent African countries, such as Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda, would be able to escape poverty if only Western donors filled the "financing gap" between what they could afford and the resources they needed to invest in factories, roads, railways, and other forms of infrastructure.
It is natural, given such a background, that mines and factories and railways and ships were among the young Jack's interests ("I was going out on my bike with a sketch pad to make drawings of chimneys, pits, mills, tenements and ship-breaking yards"), and they remain important to him now.
