The ministry implements industrial, labor and local development policy.
The party's decline can be traced to the disappearance of its strong union base in the north, where minimum-wage service workers have replaced industrial labor.
You will not get far if you assume they are going to do the same jobs that industrial labor did in the 1950's and 1960's.
At its peak in 1951 the conglomerate employed around 60 thousand people, or 10% of Austrian industrial labor.
This was held up in contrast to what was perceived to be the alienating effects of industrial labor.
In 2007 it employed 420,000 people - 10% of industrial labor and 2% of the total workforce.
It attracts 32% of the country's production units and 56% of industrial labor.
Some segments of industrial labor also remained largely estranged from the political establishment.
Are the photographs presented as a statement about the demeaning nature of industrial labor?
This supported their argument that slavery provided a more humane society than industrial labor.