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Interview no. | H-0135 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | H.4. Piedmont Industrialization, 1974-1980: Catawba, N.C. |
Project description | Interviews, 1975-1980, about industrialization in Catawba County, N.C. Interviewees were workers in the county's four major industries: cotton milling and the production of hosiery, furniture, and work gloves. Many interviews relate to Shuford family members and the enterprises they created. Topics include wages, hours, discipline, pensions, technology, management, working conditions, stretchouts and speedups, occupational hazards, union activities, politics, family life, religion, race relations, and health concerns. Interviews were chiefly conducted as part of the "Perspectives on Industrialization: The Piedmont Crescent of Industry, 1900-1940" project. |
Date | 5 July 1980 |
Interviewee | Murphy, Joan. |
Interviewee occupation | Unknown |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd. |
Subject Topical |
Furniture industry and trade--North Carolina. Hickory (N.C.)--Race relations. Hickory (N.C.)--Social life and customs. Hickory (N.C.)--Politics and government. Women journalists--Southern States. |
Citation | Interview with Joan Murphy by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, 5 July 1980 H-0135, 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. | H0135_Audio_1 |