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The Way We Worked scriptBilger interview (1981) from Connecticut Workers and a Half Centuryof Technological Change, 1930-1980,--Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd ResearchCenter, University of Connecticut LibrariesHELP FROM ANIMALS“Concerning oxen, there must be 50–60 strong and 14–16 horses besidesthose which bring food and fodder up here from the station. Four horsesare used for every load, but then you must believe that they make hugeloads! . . .“Enough to say that it is hard work with long days.”--Andrew P. Solem, Norwegian immigrant writing to his family fromEmpire Lumber Co. CampDraft animals like oxen and horses were indispensible co-workers beforemechanization. These animals hauled heavy loads and pulled everythingfrom canal boats and plows to logging sleds over frozen ground.Logs heading to market, Huron-Manistee National Forest, Michigan,ca. 1887.--National Archives, Records of the U.S. Forest ServiceSolem letter (1891) from Andrew P. Solem Papers, 1879–1899.--University of Wisconsin Digital CollectionsON THE LINE“I experienced the famous ‘Ford Speed-Up.’ When I went to work at theplant in January, they were turning out 242 Ford cars a day, and youmultiply that by two and that’s how many right fenders I sandpaperedevery day. When I quit four months later, we were turning out 535 cars aday, and I was sandpapering all the right-hand fenders just like I did at thebeginning without any extra help.”– Justin McCarthy, worked at a Ford assembly plant in the late 1930sThousands of Americans work on assembly lines, making everything fromradios to cars to toys. When Ford Motor Company began in 1903, it hadonly a few hundred workers. By the 1930s, the River Rouge Ford plantwas the world’s largest foundry with over 100,000 employees.Workers assemble radios, New York, 1945.--National Archives, Records of the Office of War InformationMcCarthy interview (1971) from Hard Times: An Oral History of theGreat Depression,--by Studs Terkel14
The Way We Worked scriptHUMAN INGENUITY“It was just after World War II, and electronics had started to move intohospital equipment . . . . I used to pick [my wife] up after work, and theywould say, ‘Earl, could you fix this device for us?’“So . . . a brother-in-law and I said maybe there’s a business in repairingmedical electronic equipment.“We just set up a repair service, and we were repairing every kind of thingthat was brought to us.”– Earl Bakken, Medtronics founder and maker of the first selfcontainedpacemakerLewis Hine called this photograph “Mechanic in his shrine—the heart ofthe turbine.” Despite its size, the powerful machine won’t last without usto care for it.Turbine mechanic, New York City,--by Lewis W. Hine, 1924.National Archives, Records of the Works Progress AdministrationBakken interview (2007)--from The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers HistoryCenter, New Brunswick, New Jersey[end flipbook]“When I die, don't bury me at all,Just hang me up on the spoolroom wall.Place a knotter in my hand,So I can spool in the Promised Land.”--Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues, American ballad, early 20 th centuryMagnolia Cotton Mills spinning room, Magnolia, Mississippi,by Lewis W. Hine, May 1911.National Archives,Records of the Children’s BureauWorkers at Union Mills, Inc., stoke the textile plant’s furnaces,Hudson, New York,by S.G. Knowles, ca. 1917–18.National Archives,Records of the War Department, General and Special Staffs15
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