Migration of a working family
Subtitle: from the San Joaquin Valley to the Richmond shipyards, 1942
By: interview conducted by Judith K. Dunning ; introduction by Jim Quay ; Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Dunning, Judith.; Quay, James.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.; Online Archive of California.
Publisher: University of California
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Subjects: Filice and Perrelli Canning Company -- History.; Kaiser Shipyards (Richmond, Calif.); Shipyards -- California -- Richmond.; World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- California -- Richmond.; Migration, Internal -- California -- History -- 20th century.; Asbestosis.; Industries -- California -- Richmond -- History.; Richmond (Calif.) -- History.
Other titles: On the waterfront : an oral history of Richmond, California.
Description: Describes her family's move from the Midwest to the San Joaquin Valley in 1937, agricultural work, their move to Richmond in 1942 to work in the Kaiser shipyards, health conditions there, asbestosis, war-time rationing, the shipyard closure, Filice and Perelli Canning Co., and the changes that have occurred in Richmond since WWII.