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Interview no. | H-0107 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | H.4. Piedmont Industrialization, 1974-1980: Catawba, N.C. |
Project description | Interviews, 1975-1980, about industrialization in Catawba County, N.C. Interviewees were workers in the county's four major industries: cotton milling and the production of hosiery, furniture, and work gloves. Many interviews relate to Shuford family members and the enterprises they created. Topics include wages, hours, discipline, pensions, technology, management, working conditions, stretchouts and speedups, occupational hazards, union activities, politics, family life, religion, race relations, and health concerns. Interviews were chiefly conducted as part of the "Perspectives on Industrialization: The Piedmont Crescent of Industry, 1900-1940" project. |
Date | 2 July 1980 |
Interviewee | Austin, Eunice, b. 1915. |
Interviewee occupation | Textile workers |
Interviewee DOB | 1915 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd. |
Abstract | Eunice Austin describes a lifetime of laboring in Catawba County, North Carolina. Austin began her laboring life as a mill worker, like many young white southerners. In subsequent positions, she looped socks and made buttons, and after finding work in a furniture factory, inspected and assembled chairs. In this interview, Austin shares details from and reflects on her life, a happy one in her opinion. She offers a glimpse into life in the rural South in the twentieth century, details about manual labor in dominant southern industries like textiles and furniture-making, and the changing roles of women and African Americans. |
Subject Topical |
Women textile workers. Textile workers--Training of. Farm life--North Carolina--Bynum. |
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-0107_Audio |