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Object Description
Interview no. | H-0241 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | H.7. Piedmont Industrialization, 1974-1980: Greenville, S.C. |
Project description | Interviews, 1976-1980, about industrialization in Greenville, N.C., chiefly documenting the growth of the textile industry there. Topics include the development of the prosperous town, the neighborhoods in which black servants lived, and the mill villages; work experiences and daily lives of mill workers, most of whom migrated from farming communities; moving from farming to industrial work; work conditions; safety; stretchouts; wages; paternalism; the division of labor by gender; home work; the impact of the Depression and World War II; violence in the mills; unionization; and health concerns. Interviews were chiefly conducted as part of the "Perspectives on Industrialization: The Piedmont Crescent of Industry, 1900-1940" project. |
Date | 23 May 1980 |
Interviewee | Dodson, Ila Hartsell, 1907-1985. |
Interviewee occupation |
Textile workers Factory workers |
Interviewee DOB | 1907 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Tullos, Allen, 1950- |
Abstract | Ila Hartsell Dodson talks about working in a South Carolina textile mill. The interview contains insights into rural life and information about mill work. |
Subject Topical |
Women textile workers--South Carolina. Textile factories--South Carolina. Textile workers--South Carolina. Child labor--South Carolina. |
Subject Name |
Dodson, Ila Hartsell, 1907-1985. Dodson, Geddes. |
Citation | Interview with [interviewee name] by [interviewer name], [interview date] [interview number], in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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Interview no. | H-0241_Audio |