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An apprenticeship in the machine trades in 1965 was a four-year indenture at deliberately low pay, served in a shop where the training was informal, the guarding was…
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Caddying in 1962 was one of the great summer jobs, and almost every element of it is now impossible. A boy of twelve or fourteen turned up at…
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The cannery was one of the great employers of women in twentieth-century industry, and almost nobody writes about it. In fruit and vegetable districts, salmon ports and tomato…
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The annual company picnic was not a perk bolted onto a job. For a substantial part of the mid-century workforce it was the one day a year when…
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Amateur radio in 1965 was the only way an ordinary person could build a machine on their kitchen table and use it to talk to a stranger six…
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The sporting goods shop of 1968 was a general store for everything a person did outdoors or on a field, run by somebody who had done most of…