Word: zippers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MAKING THE CLOTHES that others wear is tiring, tedious, noisy work. A piece of clothing in a garment factory is divided into units of work: zippers, belts, seams, sleeves, button holes, facings. A worker performs one of these operations on an incomplete garment which is then passed to the next worker--until the piece is completed by six or seven people. At seven cents per zipper, a stitcher must put in over 36 zippers an hour to earn more than the International Ladies Garment Workers (ILG) Union minimum wage...
...these shop conditions don't stop the women from joking. "Yes, we have a good boss. He allows us to take coffee breaks...on our own time." Another worker lampooned her boss's attitude in the bitter haggling over two and a half cents more for a difficult zipper: "Every day the boss tells us he's going out of business...
...Released by the Viet Cong in 1971, Sexton had never heard of Women's Lib, miniskirts or unisex. "When he went into a shop for some clothes and saw a girl buying from the same rack-it was a unisex shop, and she was buying pants with a zipper up the front-he just walked right out again...
April 5, 1967 "Williams--a real zipper--with 175 yards on the ground was the top rusher for the Bulldog offense...
...Christmas would never come. For Apollo 16 had suffered more than its share of worrisome glitches on its way to the moon. First, there were minor troubles -the mysterious flickering of a computer warning light, the mid-flight peeling of protective paint off the lunar module and the recalcitrant zipper on Young's space suit. Then, after the Apollo had gone into orbit around the moon and Orion, with Duke and Young aboard, had separated from Casper, came real cause for alarm...