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Interview no. | H-0085-2 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | H.3. Piedmont Industrialization, 1974-1980: Bynum, N.C. |
Project description | Interviews, 1976-1979, about industrialization in Bynum, N.C., a company-owned mill town in Chatham County. Many interviewees worked at the J.M. Odell Manufacturing Company, a spinning mill, for part or all of their careers. Topics include technology, the impact of the Depression and World War II on the mill, paternalism, work discipline, work division by sex and race, unionization attempts, brown lung and other health hazards of mill work, recollections of London family members who ran the mill, mill village life, and the transition from company to private ownership in the 1970s. Interviews were chiefly conducted as part of the "Perspectives on Industrialization: The Piedmont Crescent of Industry, 1900-1940" project. |
Date | 13 October 1976 |
Interviewee | Jones, Louise Rigsbee, b. 1897. |
Interviewee occupation | Textile workers |
Interviewee DOB | 1897 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Frederickson, Mary. |
Abstract | This is the second interview in a two-part series with Louise Riggsbee Jones about her life in Bynum, North Carolina. Born in 1897, Jones lived her entire life in Bynum, North Carolina. Here she focuses on life and work in that working community. Jones describes again the importance of church, discussing in detail the role of religious revivals in her community during the early twentieth century. In addition, she describes her own courtship and marriage at the age of 25. Like many of her peers, Jones was pregnant and had a baby within her first year of marriage, which she attributes in part to the absence of birth control and sexual education. Before the birth of her first child, Jones had worked as a winder in the Bynum cotton mill and she returned to that post during the Great Depression in order to help the family make ends meet. Jones describes working as a winder in the mill, focusing on such issues as work conditions, gender, balancing work and family, relationships between workers, and workers' benefits (specifically Social Security). |
Subject Topical |
Bynum (N.C.)--Social life and customs. Bynum (N.C.)--Religious life and customs. Women textile workers--North Carolina--Bynum. Courtship--North Carolina--Bynum. Families--North Carolina--Bynum. Textile workers--North Carolina--Bynum. Working mothers--North Carolina--Bynum. |
Subject Name | Jones, Louise Rigsbee, b. 1897. |
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-0085-2_Audio |