Oral history interview with Sid Smith, January 25, 1999
Subtitle: interview I-0081, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Mosnier, Joseph, 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; Chief executive officers; Hosiery industry; Technological innovations; Hosiery; Marketing; Hosiery workers; National Association of Hosiery Manufacturers (U.S.)
Other titles: Interview I-0081, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Sid Smith, January 25, 1999; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: Robert Sidney Smith, president and CEO of the National Association of Hosiery Manufacturers, discusses the hosiery industry in North Carolina and the U.S., delving into its history, present challenges, and future. Smith describes the minutiae of hosiery business, such as the development of new techniques and technologies, as well as stepping back to evaluate the place of U.S. hosiery manufacturers in the world market and the increasing need to market products as well as produce them.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on Oct. 25, 2007).

Interview participants: Sid Smith, interviewee; Joseph Mosnier, interviewer.

Duration: 02:08:26.

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 I, Business history, interview I-0081, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Original transcript: 53 p.

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

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