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Interview no. | I-0105 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | I.2. Business History: North Carolina Business History |
Project description | Interviews, 1995-1999, with leaders of traditional and emergent North Carolina industries, such as furniture, banking, tobacco products, textiles, poultry, food and food services, tourism, pharmaceuticals, computers, and steel. Interviewees describe the origins and evolution of their companies; changes and problems they confront; the impact of businesses on the communities in which they operate; and regional, national, and global developments that will affect future prospects. |
Date | 25 March 1997 |
Interviewee | Millis, James Henry, 1923- |
Interviewee occupation | Executives |
Interviewee DOB | 1923 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Darr, Dorothy, 1946- |
Abstract | From a third-generation Southern textile family, Millis discusses growing up in North Carolina, his early education and college years around the time of World War Two, his return to work in the family hosiery company, the founding of the company at the turn of the 20th century and its rise to become a leader in the industry, his business involvement with hosiery, the position of CEO, unionization of hosiery in High Point and the changes in the workforce from the 1950s, the advent of technology and the need to modernize and automate the plants, avoiding downsizing through growth, outside forces that served to change the industry like styling and technology, business/community life, personal qualities that led to success, and retirement as a philanthropist. |
Subject Topical |
Textile industry--North Carolina. Hosiery industry--North Carolina. Business--History. |
Citation | Interview with James Henry Millis by Dorothy Darr, 25 March 1997 I-0105, 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. | I0105_Audio_1 |