| Description | Interviews with workers on a bridge construction. They discuss their origins and reasons for doing construction work. They talk of hard work and the different jobs they do.
Track 1: Discussion on steel fixing for bridges 1.56 mins Track 2: Discussion of steel fixing gangs and singing 1.42 mins Track 3: Discussion of time on job and singing 1.59 mins Track 4: Discussion with Limerick man a ganger 2.01mins Track 5: Discussion of team and origins 1.52 mins Track 6: Shovelling sounds 1.17 mins Track 7: Discussion with Indian worker 2.42 mins Track 8: Discussion of catering and working hours 1.26 mins Track 9: Discussion with mixer driver 1.56 mins Track 10: Discussion of support members and diagonals 3.00 mins Track 11: Discussion of lengths of tubes 2.08 mins Track 12: Discussion of washing powder sales 2.59 mins Track 13: Background sounds on bridge 2.05 mins Track 14: Discussion with steel fixer, Ted Jones, about his job 1.58 mins Track 15: Discussion of gang of 8 workers 1.56 mins Track 16: Discussion of job satisfaction 1.44 mins Track 17: Discussion with Eric Allen about motorway work 2.06 mins Track 18: Discussion of length of deck and work schedule 1.43 mins Track 19: Discussion of 26 years on job and history 2.29 mins Track 20: Discussion of standardisation of work and change 2.46 mins Track 21: Discussion of navies, old and new 2.59 mins Track 22: Discussion of shoddy work and danger 2.35 mins Track 23: Discussion of look of bridges and function 0.59 mins Track 24: Silence 0.35 mins Track 25: Discussion of steel fixers sitting around 1.14 mins Track 26: Discussion of Irish worker and steel fixing 2.14 mins Track 27: Silence 1.00 Track 28: Discussion of the IRA (Irish Republican Army) 0.42 mins Track 29: Discussion with Joe Keeley about carpenters, pattern and craft 1.46 mins Track 30: Discussion of joinery since age of 16 2.25 mins Track 31: Discussion of weight bearing members and curves 2.17 mins Track 32: Discussion of close fitting of joints 1.58 mins Track 33: Discussion of satisfaction in work 0.55 mins Track 34: Discussion of civil engineering and interest 1.44 mins
Total: 65.10 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF549C0504880 |