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here and all the goings on that went on, they always packed more lobsters for the amount of help they had than they ever did at "the Lake". They got better facilities and all this but they could still pack more at "The Poin ". Of course,80 they worked terrible hours. . I think that it would be appropriate to close with several quotes which seem particularily important to the theme of this essay. They had a lot of fun you know. There was a gang of them together. They had a lot of fun _and once in awhile a couple of them would get together and get married after the season was over... I guess it was frowned upon somewhat by the authorities around the factory... There was an element that I noticed if-you weren't in with the crowd at the factory or one of the crowd you 81 were more or less an outsider.

His wife then stated, "They were a clique unto themselves.82 I knew that too. I never worked there."

It appears to me that although the work was long and hard for both the fishermen and the factory crew, it was rewarding because it did not dampen individualism as one would expect from that type of work. Janet and Earl Johnston were better employers for that time "and place than a lot of the other lobster factory owners; This may

be one of the reasons why worker productivity was so high. Those working conditions at today's standards would be apalling. The' workers and fishermen all knew each other and went that extra mile to help each other out. This is especially true of the cooks who 'worked so hard to add a little variety to the diet. Although the working conditions and pay have improved greatly to the benefit of the workers, something maybe even more important has been lost; The large fish plants of today are impersonal and follow on true

("assembly line" approach which although it provides better material