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1) Modern times
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A satire on the effects of mass production on the lives of factory workers. Shows Charlie as a factory worker, jailbird, night watchman, and singing waiter. Primarily silent with music and sound effects, but voices emanate from TV sets and radios.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The Brompton is no ordinary bike. You ride it - you fold it up. Not so much a product - more a cult - and it's made in Britain! This is the story of how they make it - and why they're changing to a different approach to production. Design: The Brompton bike was the brainchild of ex-landscape gardener Andrew Ritchie. He failed to interest the big bicycle companies in the idea and set up his own company. The secret of the Brompton's success lies in...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
The East-West Highway was soon to be built in central Taiwan. It would pass through the village of Liu Ts'o, and many homes and rice paddies would be destroyed. The film maker Hu Tai-Li went back to her mother-in-law's village Liu Ts'o, where she did anthropological research from 1976-78, to preserve some images of life forever.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Factories, with their ingenious machinery and miraculous productivity, are celebrated as modern wonders of the world. Yet from William Blake's "dark Satanic mills" they have also fuelled our fears of the future. Telling the story of the factory, Joshua B. Freeman takes readers from the textile mills in England that powered the Industrial Revolution to the steel and car plants of twentieth-century America, Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, to today's...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In 1993, artist Anselm Kiefer left Buchen, Germany for La Ribaute, a derelict silk factory near Barjac, a town in the south of France. Sophie Fiennes' film sheds insight into the years that Kiefer spent there, engaged in a fervent process of artistic creation, in order to shape the estate according to his vision.
8) Mill
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This illustrated look at nineteenth-century New England architecture was named a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year.
This book, from the award-winning author of The Way Things Work, takes readers of all ages on a journey through a fictional mill town called Wicksbridge. With words and pictures, David Macaulay reveals fascinating details about the planning, construction, and operation of the mills—and...
This book, from the award-winning author of The Way Things Work, takes readers of all ages on a journey through a fictional mill town called Wicksbridge. With words and pictures, David Macaulay reveals fascinating details about the planning, construction, and operation of the mills—and...
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 19
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
©2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
It is up to the Thea sisters to investigate when an Ecuadorian chocolate factory known for its environmental practices begins malfunctioning and the owner suspects sabotage.
10) Spilled water
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After her father's death, Lu Si-Yan's uncle sells her to a rich family who expect her to work as their servant until she is old enough to marry their son, but when she runs away things only get worse.
11) Lyddie
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2004, c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.
12) Downside Up
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
How does a dying working class town end up betting its future on art? With 80% of its downtown buildings closed, North Adams, Massachusetts united blue-collar locals with art world luminaries to transform economic failure into America's largest center for contemporary art, MASS MoCA. A film by North Adams native Nancy Kelly, DOWNSIDE UP is about the tentative, dangerous notion of hope in a city widely viewed as hopeless. When, in the 1980s, the Sprague...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A funny, fierce, and unforgettable read about a young woman working a summer job in a shirt factory in Northern Ireland, while tensions rise both inside and outside the factory walls. It's the summer of 1994, and all smart-mouthed Maeve Murray wants are good final exam results so she can earn her ticket out of the wee Northern Irish town she has grown up in during the Troubles. She hopes she will soon be in London studying journalism--away from her...
14) Saboteur
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Barry Kane is a Los Angeles aircraft factory worker who witnesses a Nazi agent firebombing his plant. However, it is Barry who is accused of the fiery sabotage, and to clear his name he sets off on a desperate, action-packed cross-country chase that takes him from Boulder Dam to New York's Radio City Music Hall to the top of the Statue of Liberty. Hitchcock's first film with an all-American cast moves with breakneck speed toward its final heart-pounding...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Candy manufacturer Willy Wonka has a contest and hides five golden tickets in five of his scrumptious candy bars. All five ticket winners get a free tour of the mysterious Wonka factory, as well as a lifetime supply of Wonka candy. Four of the children are nasty brats who are punished by Willie Wonka with various diabolical, but funny, methods. Only Charlie, a likeable child, wins the heart of the manufacturer.
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
Español
Description
Trustworthy, kind, and poor Charlie Bucket, the hero of the story, and greedy Augustus Gloop, spoiled Veruca Salt, gum-chewing Violet Beauregarde, and TV-addict Mike Teve have amazing adventures in a chocolate factory.
18) The bobbin girl
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A ten-year-old bobbin girl working in a textile mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1830s, must make a difficult decision--will she participate in the first workers' strike in Lowell?
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Charlie and five others draw golden tickets from Wonka chocolate bars and win a guided tour of the legendary candy factory that no outsider has seen in 15 years. Dazzled by one amazing sight after another, Charlie is drawn into Wonka's fantastic world.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
Français
Description
Jacques Tati's comic comment on the encroachment of modern civilization upon the charm of the old world. Mr. Hulot returns as the bumbling uncle of a young boy whose parents are the ultimate consumers in an ultra-hygienic world.
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