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In 1960 wire rope was made on machines carrying dozens of heavy bobbins spinning around a central axis, in buildings that transmitted the vibration through the floor, with…
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In 1955 the remnants of a trade were still being worked in brick sheds behind houses - a hearth, an anvil, bellows, and a family making chain and…
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In 1960 an aeroplane was aluminium held together by several hundred thousand rivets, each one driven by two people working on opposite sides of a structure, unable to…
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In 1960 a shoe began as a hide cut by hand with a knife by the highest-paid man in the building, because the value of the whole operation…
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In 1960 a van called at the house on a fixed day, took the family's washing away, and brought it back the following week washed, pressed, folded and…
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In 1965 a car was assembled by several thousand people doing fixed tasks in the interval between one body arriving and the next, for pay negotiated job by…