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Interview no. | H-0258 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | H.7. Piedmont Industrialization, 1974-1980: Greenville, S.C. |
Project description | Interviews, 1976-1980, about industrialization in Greenville, N.C., chiefly documenting the growth of the textile industry there. Topics include the development of the prosperous town, the neighborhoods in which black servants lived, and the mill villages; work experiences and daily lives of mill workers, most of whom migrated from farming communities; moving from farming to industrial work; work conditions; safety; stretchouts; wages; paternalism; the division of labor by gender; home work; the impact of the Depression and World War II; violence in the mills; unionization; and health concerns. Interviews were chiefly conducted as part of the "Perspectives on Industrialization: The Piedmont Crescent of Industry, 1900-1940" project. |
Date | 25 March 1980 |
Interviewee | Trammel, Naomi Sizemore. |
Interviewee occupation |
Textile workers Factory workers |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Tullos, Allen, 1950- |
Abstract | Naomi Sizemore Trammel grew up in the country but found it necessary to move to a nearby mill town at the age of ten when her parents died and she and her older sister had to support themselves. Trammel began a lifetime of textile mill labor in the spinning room of Victor Mill in Greer, SC. She describes her experiences there and at two other mills before she left the working world at mid-century. Trammel began work as a child, but her job did not prevent her from having fun. In fact, for the duration of her employment in the mill industry, she recalls working at a comfortable pace and finding time for recreation. This interview offers a modicum of insights into mill work in early 20th-century South Carolina and one mill worker's experience of some of the formative events of the era, including the Great Depression and the 1918 influenza epidemic. |
Subject Topical |
Greenville (S.C.)--Social life and customs. Greer (S.C.)--Social life and customs. Women textile workers--South Carolina. Orphans--South Carolina. Textile workers--South Carolina. Textile workers--South Carolina. Child labor--South Carolina. |
Subject Name |
Trammel, Naomi Sizemore. Griffith, Florence, 1911- |
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-0258_Audio |