Loading bricks in the masonry shop. Homestead Steel Works. Homestead, Pennsylvania. May, 1945.
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Loading bricks in the masonry shop. Homestead Steel Works. Homestead, Pennsylvania. May, 1945.
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When I first saw the photo I thought of Government Cheese from the early 80s.
The Government is sitting on 1.4 billion pounds of cheese...
Appears to be a lot of manual labor like most operations during that era. Little to no automation.
Two bricks at a time...
Being 1945, some of those will be discharged servicepeople. Just prior to this, sufficient production to supply the entire free world. Compared with more recent times, quality control was in hand, at the production level, not surplus levels of management. The work ethic and experience fueled the economy decades beyond, also creating a few new companies. All that equates into a portion of job satisfaction.
1913 Ford Motor Company assembly line workers.
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Are they dropping the body onto the frame?