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Interview no. | H-0106 |
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 | 12 December 1979 |
Interviewee | Aaron, Junie Edna Kaylor, b. 1904. |
Interviewee occupation | Textile workers |
Interviewee DOB | 1904 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd. |
Abstract | Junie Edna Kaylor Aaron grew up on her mother's farm in Catawba County, North Carolina, helping out when she grew old enough and eventually taking a position sewing gloves at a nearby mill. Aaron worked in the clothing industry until she was sixty-nine, moving from glove-making to hosiery to upholstery. In this interview she recalls her laboring life, touching briefly on the glove-making process, sex segregation in the clothing industry, and the lack of union traction in her trade. |
Subject Topical |
Women textile workers. 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-0106_Audio |