Levi Strauss & Co. : tailors to the world
Subtitle: and related material
By: tape recorded interview conducted 1972-1973 by Harriet Nathan for the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1976 :
Contributors: Nathan, Harriet.; Grether, Ewald Theophilus, 1899-; Haas, Walter A., 1889-1979.; Haas, Walter A., 1916-; Koshland, Daniel Edward, 1892-; Haas, Peter E., 1918-; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 1972
Subjects: Levi Strauss and Company.; Business enterprises -- United States.; Businessmen -- California -- Interviews.
Description: Interviews with Walter A. Haas, Sr., Daniel E. Koshland, Sr., Walter A. Haas, Jr., and Peter E. Haas, the four presidents of the firm since World War I. Comments on the growth of the company from regional manufacturer to multinational corporation; problems of transition from family-owned enterprise to a public one; the company's policy of social responsibility, etc. Appended: photocopies of documents supporting the interviews. with this, as v. 2 (portfolio): Additional documentary material (Copies of annual reports, brochures, articles, clippings, etc.)