ABSTRACT
I stand in one spot, about a two- or three-foot area, all night… . We do about 32 [welding] jobs per car, per unit. Forty-eight units an hour, eight hours a day. Thirty-two times forty-eight times eight. Figure it out. That’s how many times I push that button… . You dream, you think of things you’ve done. I drift back continuously to when I was a kid and what me and my brothers did… . [Y]ou’re nothing more than a machine. They give better care to that machine than they will to you. They’ll have more respect, give more attention to that machine… . Somehow you get the feeling that the machine is better than you are. 1
