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Interview no. | H-0024 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | H.2. Piedmont Industrialization, 1974-1980: Burlington, N.C. |
Project description | Interviews, 1977-1984, about industrialization in Burlington, N.C., an early textile industry site and home to Burlington Industries, at one time the largest textile corporation in the world. Interviews focus on former workers of the E.M. Holt Plaid Mill, owned by the Holt family, and on the Pioneer plant, owned by Burlington Industries. Work, family, and living conditions are covered extensively. Other topics include geographic and job mobility; the transition from family ownership (the Holt mills) to corporate management (Burlington Industries); technology; work organization; the impact of the Depression and World War II; occupational sex roles; and child labor. Interviews were chiefly conducted as part of the "Perspectives on Industrialization: The Piedmont Crescent of Industry, 1900-1940" project. |
Date | April 4, 1979 |
Interviewee | Haithcock, Versa V. |
Interviewee occupation | Textile workers |
Interviewee DOB | 1906 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Murphy, Mary, 1953- |
Abstract | Mr. Versa Haithcock has worked at various mills in the Piedmont region of North Carolina since the 1920s. He says this has nothing to do with the jobs themselves, but rather because he likes to move around and “see what’s happening.” Haithcock spends a lot of time talking about the mill villages and boardinghouses, including why they existed, why they were so popular, and what constituted a good one. He himself lived most of his bachelor life in a boardinghouse until he got married. There is discussion of unionization in the 1930s, with mentions of how nobody has brought up unionization in years. |
Subject Topical |
Labor unions--North Carolina. Child labor--North Carolina. Textile workers--North Carolina. |
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. | H0024_Audio_1 |