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In 1960 the colour in cloth was decided by a man holding a wet sample against a reference at a north-facing window, working from recipes written in his…
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In 1960 a lifeboat crew was summoned by explosions fired over the town, assembled from whatever jobs they happened to be doing, and launched down a slipway or…
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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…
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In 1955 the hop harvest was brought in by families who came out from the cities every autumn, lived for a month in one-room huts with a fire…