Williams, a self-taught poet who worked for twenty-three years in the sheds of the Great Western Railway’s works at Swindon, sets down what factory life really was. He describes the shops and their machines, the foremen and the men, piece-work, accidents, heat and noise, the trip holiday, and the causes of labour unrest, with his own ideas for remedy.
A rare and vivid first-hand record of industrial work in Edwardian England. Download the free EPUB.