The industries are equal in importance to the transit trade, and embrace metalworking, ironfounding and machine building, the manufacture of electric plant, celluloid, automobiles, furniture, cables and chemicals, sugar refining, cigar and tobacco making, and brewing.
Indeed, as long as metalworking remained a handicraft - in other words, until the introduction of steam machinery - every article, however humble its purpose, seems to have been endowed with some traditional beauty of form.
The manufactures include cigar-making, distilling, carriage-building and metalworking.
The eight-hour stoppage, called by the metalworking unions from all three Italian union confederations -. .
Slight traces of metalworking debris are also attested within this building.