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Interview no. | H-0164 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | H.5. Piedmont Industrialization, 1974-1980: Charlotte, N.C. |
Project description | Interviews, 1979-1980, about industrialization in Charlotte, N.C. Interviews focus on mill village neighborhoods of north Charlotte with most of the interviewees having worked in the cotton or hosiery industries. Topics include jobs in the mills, work conditions, child labor, work discipline, changing technology, speed ups, efficiency experts, the impact of the Depression and World War II, unionization and strikes, paternalism, company stores, relations between textile workers and other Charlotte residents, and general mill village and family life. A few of the interviewees are with transportation workers and business leaders and executives. Interviews were chiefly conducted as part of the "Perspectives on Industrialization: The Piedmont Crescent of Industry, 1900-1940" project. |
Date | 11 June 1980 |
Interviewee | Harris, L. Worth, 1908-1998. |
Interviewee occupation | Textile workers |
Interviewee DOB | 1908 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Tullos, Allen, 1950- |
Abstract | L. Worth Harris grew up near Charlotte, North Carolina, a city that became a hub of the freight business in the early and middle of the 20th century. Harris contributed to this development, starting his own trucking company in the early 1930s shortly after graduating from business school. In this interview he describes navigating the powerful unions; shipping textiles to New York City; and ultimately selling his business rather than merging with another one in the mid-1960s. He also seeks to explain why trucks replaced trains as the region's principal transportation vehicle, and why Charlotte became the center of the freight business. This interview offers a look at the growth of an important southern business. |
Subject Topical |
Charlotte (N.C.)--Commerce. Trucking--North Carolina--Charlotte. Businesspeople--North Carolina--Charlotte. Trucking--North Carolina--Charlotte. Transportation--United States. |
Subject Name | Harris, L. Worth, 1908-1998. |
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-0164_Audio |