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Interview no. | H-0131 |
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 |
Killian, Kathryn, 1916- Bolick, Blanche, 1907-2001. |
Interviewee occupation |
Textile workers Textile workers |
Interviewee DOB | 1916 ; 1907 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd. |
Abstract | Kathryn Killian and her sister Blanche Bolick recall their upbringing near Conover, NC, and their careers making gloves. They fondly remember the distant world of their childhood, rich in family bonds and community connection. They are less nostalgic for their working lives, however. Killian is the more talkative of the pair, eager to share her dislike for factory work. Her work arrangement was an unusual one: after the death of her husband, who was crushed by a tree, her employer, also her brother-in-law, set up a glove-making machine in her home, making her both a stay-at-home mom and a working mother. This interview offers a useful look at the working lives of women in the early 20th-century South. |
Subject Topical |
Catawba County (N.C.)--Social life and customs. Women textile workers--North Carolina--Conover. Glove industry--North Carolina--Conover. Farm life--North Carolina--Catawba County. Cottage industries--North Carolina--Conover. |
Subject Name |
Killian, Kathryn, 1916- Bolick, Blanche, 1907-2001. |
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-0131_Audio |