Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. Organizations (hierarchy name)
4. organizations (groups)

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. Organizations
4. organizations
5. businesses
6. business enterprises by function

Narrower term/s

• ironworks businesses

Anotations

Scope note:

Businesses, establishments, or other administrative organizations that oversee the action or process of making goods, particularly such establishments in operation after the Industrial Revolution of the mid-19th century, often employing at least some mechanical production methods rather than creating strictly handmade items. Modern factories organize their operations to meet the need for production on a large scale, usually with power-driven machinery. For earlier organizations that created handmade works, use "manufactories."