Rowntree was a Victorian Quaker, chocolatier and philanthropist who gave the world not only fruit pastilles and Kit-Kats, but also the proof that treating factory-workers with decency and respect was actually really good for both business and society in general.
But I must admit: I get a bit aggravated by politicians who readily treat factory workers and their hardhats as political props but fail to deliver on public policies that would help more Americans get these good jobs.
The recent moves have angered many employees who have become accustomed to a company that, under founder Charney, had fashioned a name for itself by treating its factory workers well — with good wages, benefits and even free massages.
If the city's landmark commission was willing to make the old Milk-Bone dog treat factory on the Lower East Side a landmark, why doesn't Yankee Stadium make the cut?
"A Factory Farm Near You" (editorial, July 31) does not mention any issue of the morality of factory farming — treating living beings as factory products.
The approach uses exergy analysis and treats the factory as an integrated energy system comprising a building, its technical building services and manufacturing processes.
The federal Bureau of Alcohol , Tobaccoand Firearms was treating the scorched factory, which made syringes and parts for intravenous hookups, as a crime scene.
Rugs, mattresses, curtains, and other similar items may be treated in factories to proof them from moths and other pests [ 34].
When the father dies, leaving a pile of debts, Jonathan is forced to abandon his surgical training and sign on with an older doctor in a general practice treating poor miners and factory workers.
It might be possible to operate a successful diamond mine, cotton plantation, or sock factory by treating employees as automatons and ignoring their basic needs, but that doesn't work for scientists.
It had ignored the advice of subject experts, subject associations, teachers and employers including the Confederation for British Industry which had argued against treating schools like "exam factories".
