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Interview no. | H-0213 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | H.6. Piedmont Industrialization, 1974-1980: Durham, N.C. |
Project description | Interviews, 1976-1979, about industrialization in Durham, N.C., chiefly documenting experiences of workers in the city's tobacco, textile, and hosiery industries. Some interviewees discuss farming, sawmilling, or domestic service jobs they held in addition to factory work. Tobacco workers focus on work conditions, processing tobacco, the division of labor by gender and by race, labor policies, labor unions, and strikes. Textile and hosiery workers cover similar topics, plus speedups and time studies. Some discuss factory owners William Erwin and Kemp Plummer Lewis. Other topics include race relations (many of the tobacco workers were African American), including segregation and discrimination in the workplace and elsewhere; family life; living conditions; education; music and other forms of recreation; and health concerns. Interviews were chiefly conducted as part of the "Perspectives on Industrialization: The Piedmont Crescent of Industry, 1900-1940" project. |
Date | July 12, 1979 |
Interviewee | Oakley, Maxie. |
Interviewee occupation | Textile workers |
Interviewee DOB | 1906 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Murphy, Mary, 1953- |
Abstract | The interview includes comments on farm life in Virginia and the family's move to Durham, where her father worked at a tobacco warehouse. There is considerable focus on her mother's role in the family both on the farm in Virginia and in Durham as well as her own role in raising and worrying about her brothers and sisters. She expresses forthright opinions about childbirth, birth control, her decision not to have children, and the tremendous responsibility of children. |
Subject Topical |
Durham (N.C.)--Social life and customs. Tobacco workers--North Carolina. |
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. | H0213_Audio_1 |