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Interview no. | H-0058 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | H.2. Piedmont Industrialization, 1974-1980: Burlington, N.C. |
Project description | Interviews, 1977-1984, about industrialization in Burlington, N.C., an early textile industry site and home to Burlington Industries, at one time the largest textile corporation in the world. Interviews focus on former workers of the E.M. Holt Plaid Mill, owned by the Holt family, and on the Pioneer plant, owned by Burlington Industries. Work, family, and living conditions are covered extensively. Other topics include geographic and job mobility; the transition from family ownership (the Holt mills) to corporate management (Burlington Industries); technology; work organization; the impact of the Depression and World War II; occupational sex roles; and child labor. Interviews were chiefly conducted as part of the "Perspectives on Industrialization: The Piedmont Crescent of Industry, 1900-1940" project. |
Date | 15 February 1979 |
Interviewee | Wiles, Benn G. |
Interviewee occupation | Sales personnel |
Interviewee DOB | 1906 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Tullos, Allen, 1950- |
Subject Topical |
Textile industry--North Carolina. Burlington (N.C.)--Social life and customs. Grocers--North Carolina. |
Citation | Interview with Benn G. Wiles by Allen Tullos, 15 February 1979 H-0058, 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. | H0058_Audio_1 |