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In 1965 a commercial fishing crew went to sea in a wooden boat, paid by a share of whatever they caught, with no survival suits, no catch limit,…
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In 1965 a large shipyard employed thousands of people who mostly walked to work, assembled a hull outdoors plate by plate on an open berth, worked at eighty…
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Offshore oil in 1975 was a young industry expanding at extraordinary speed, operating on rules borrowed from onshore drilling and from shipping, with accommodation bolted to the same…
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In 1965 a brewery employed its own coopers to build the barrels, kept horses to deliver the beer, gave every worker a daily allowance of beer to drink…
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A mixed veterinary practice in 1965 made its living from farm animals, saw pets in a brief evening surgery, and was run by one or two men who…
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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…