Or the core reasons why unionization of the industrial workforce was a necessary and *good* thing.
The photos of the women hunched over these benches as they assembled teeny-tiny pocket watches with their only light coming from the overly large factory windows was a real dayum kind of moment today. It's no wonder so many women hired to do close work went near-blind.
Still, the actual machinery is very cool to look at, as are the innards of the actual pocket watches that were manufactured right here in New England. The gear work is so ridiculously delicate that it's a marvel they were able to make this stuff in the 1830s without computer guidance or precision equipment.
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The photos of the women hunched over these benches as they assembled teeny-tiny pocket watches with their only light coming from the overly large factory windows was a real dayum kind of moment today. It's no wonder so many women hired to do close work went near-blind.
Still, the actual machinery is very cool to look at, as are the innards of the actual pocket watches that were manufactured right here in New England. The gear work is so ridiculously delicate that it's a marvel they were able to make this stuff in the 1830s without computer guidance or precision equipment.
Like I said: dayum.