| Description | Track 1-11: Workers from Corah's, a hosiery factory in Leicester, talk about and demonstrate the machinery and processes involved in their work processing nylon. There is background noise of machinery.
Track 12: A woman talks about making good quality clothes, handling manmade fibres, 4.10 mins
Track 13: a woman talks about looking after her machine; it's important to treat it with care and make sure that it keeps working, she says that she sees her machine as a tool, 3.00 mins
Track 14: they talk about repetitive work, 'the grind', she would like to have time and money to travel, at weekends she does her housework, needing to have the routine of work, she talks about jobs she did when she was young - making boots and shoes, working on the post, she says she likes working on hosiery better than boots and shoes because she doesn't have to lift boxes, 3.58 mins
Track 15: Charles Parker suggests that women seem to prefer to go out to work instead of staying at home, she talks about relationships with other workers, celebrating birthdays, she says that she thinks that working as a knitter is less enjoyable than working as a machinist but knitters are paid more, which isn't fair, 2.58 mins
Track 16: she talks about 'time and motion', which doesn't reflect the price of a garment, she says that she doesn't think people can keep up the same pace of work all day, a man disagrees and says he can keep the same pace, 2.08 mins
Track 17-20: Peter Pendergast, a union officer, talks about management in industry, quality control in factories, working hours and practices.
Total: 1.05.52 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF549C0346980 |