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Object Description
Interview no. | H-0250 |
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 | 27 May 1980 |
Interviewee | Harvell, Evelyn Gosnell, 1910-2002. |
Interviewee occupation |
Textile workers Factory workers |
Interviewee DOB | 1910 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Tullos, Allen, 1950- |
Abstract | Evelyn Gosnell Harvell grew up on a farm owned by her father in Tigerville, SC. In this interview, she recalls her family's life in Tigerville and more than three decades of mill work as a weaver. Harvell shares a number of characteristics with other mill workers interviewed in this collection: she enjoyed a rewarding childhood, she liked the work she did at the mill, and she was suspicious of unions. Harvell's brief answers to the interviewer's questions -- and the interviewer's frequent use of yes-or-no questions -- makes this interview more useful for gathering information than gaining a sense of life in the early 20th-century rural South. |
Subject Topical |
Tigerville (S.C.)--Social life and customs. Greenville (S.C.)--Social life and customs. Women--South Carolina. Women textile workers--South Carolina--Greenville. Factories--South Carolina--Employees. Mills and mill-work--South Carolina. Women--Employment--South Carolina. Families--South Carolina--Social life and customs. |
Subject Name | Harvell, Evelyn Gosnell, 1910-2002. |
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-0250_Audio |