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Interview no. | H-0159 |
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 | January 31, 1980 |
Interviewee |
Dunn, John, 1910- Dunn, Minnie R. |
Interviewee occupation |
Textile workers Textile workers |
Interviewee DOB | 1910; 1911 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Tullos, Allen, 1950- |
Subject Topical |
Textile workers--North Carolina. Women textile workers. Textile workers--Training of. |
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. | H0159_Audio_1 |