Work Experience
Posted in Brighton, Frank Conroy, assembly line, ergonomics on Jun 20th, 2007
In ‘Stop-Time’, an autobiography by Frank Conroy that I am enjoying, the young Frank spends a few weeks on the streets of New York working a fruit-stall with his mother’s unreliable partner, sometime in the early 50s. He describes his absorption in the most basic tasks:
“…I approached even the smallest transaction with the e´lan of [...]