Past
Wooden shoes used to be made by hand. A good wooden shoe maker could make about 7 pairs of wooden shoes a day. Those were 13 hour workdays.
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Present
People still form a part of the production process, but most of the heavy work has been taken over by machines. With 40 fulltime employees, Klompenfabriek Nijhuis can produce up to 3,500 pairs of wooden shoes a day.
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