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Excerpt from Hygiene of the Painters' Trade
Between this and the next class come the ship painters, whose work resembles house painting very closely, yet, owing partly to the fact that the trade is unorganized, partly to differences in the work itself, ship painting must be considered separately. The shipyards employ union men, but maintain an open-shop policy. The other large class comprises painters who work in manufacturing plants, factories, or workshops of any kind. This class of men has much steadier employment both as regards time and character of work than the house painters. They use the same kind of paints and the same methods day after day, though, as is true of all factory work, subdivision of labor brings it about that a painter often has but one small part of the product intrusted to him, so that his skill is exerted in a very restricted field. In many factories hand painting has been replaced by machinery, which dips the Objects to be painted in large tanks Of paint and then swings them out over a drip board to dry. In other factories the paint is sprayed on by means of compressed-air atomizers. Consequently much of the work can be done by unskilled or semiskilled men, and many newly arrived immigrants with no experience in anything but farm work are at present employed in factory painting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
