Oral history interview with Harriet Herring, February 5, 1976
Subtitle: interview G-0027, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Frederickson, Mary E., interviewer; Brown, Nevin, interviewer; Southern Oral History Program; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Published: 2006
Place of publication: [Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Interviews; Women sociologists; Textile industry; Textile workers; Social conditions; Sociology; Study and teaching; Education; Labor unions; Social life and customs; Women college students; Students; University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Institute for Research in Social Science; University of North Carolina (1793-1962); Meredith College (Raleigh, N.C.)
Other titles: Interview G-0027, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Harriet Herring, February 5, 1976; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: Harriet Herring, a research associate at the Institute for Research in Social Science and professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, recalls her early life and experiences studying labor in North Carolina mill towns in the first half of the 20th century. The bulk of the interview focuses on Herring's efforts to study the high turnover at cotton mills and the industry's resistance to her investigations. Some recollections about Herring's family and eminent sociologist Howard T. Odum did not merit excerption but might still be useful for researchers.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on June 12, 2008).

Interview participants: Harriet Herring, interviewee; Mary Frederickson, interviewer; Nevin Brown, interviewer.

Duration: 03:43:46.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digital library, Documenting the American South.  It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South.

Text encoded by Mike Millner.  Sound recordings digitized by Steve Weiss and Aaron Smithers.

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Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series G, Southern women, interview G-0027, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Patricia Crowley. Original transcript: 112 p.

Funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this interview.

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