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Interview no. | H-0167 |
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 | 5 March 1980 |
Interviewee | Hopkins, Eva, 1918- |
Interviewee occupation | Textile workers |
Interviewee DOB | 1918 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Jones, Lu Ann. |
Abstract | Eva Hopkins is a third-generation cotton mill worker who lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. This interview includes her observations on what the Charlotte mill communities were like and why so many families worked together in the mill. She traces the tasks required in millwork through her experiences and those of her mother, then describes social activities like church, parties, movies, and swimming. Her earliest work experiences happened during the Depression, so financial need kept her on the job until federal policy forced her to leave for a year. She remembers occasional union activity though she did not join the local union. She also recalls some health hazards presented by the cotton lint in the mill and conditions in mill housing. |
Subject Topical |
Charlotte (N.C.)--Politics and government. Women textile workers--North Carolina--Charlotte. Textile factories--North Carolina--Charlotte. Child labor--North Carolina--Charlotte. Textile workers--North Carolina--Charlotte. Company towns--North Carolina--Charlotte. |
Subject Name |
Hopkins, Eva, 1918- Hopkins, Kenneth. |
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-0167_Audio |