Oral history interview with Dock E. Hall, January 7, 1976
Subtitle: interview H-0271, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Glass, Brent D., 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: 2007
Place of publication: [Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Interviews; Miners; Sawmill workers; Social life and customs; Sawmills; Mine accidents; Mining machinery
Other titles: Interview H-0271, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Dock E. Hall, January 7, 1976; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: Dock Hall's working life spanned a number of southern industries, including lumber, furniture, and mining. Hall focuses on mining in this interview, describing his work underground as a chucker (in which his task was to keep another miner's equipment cool with water), and above ground in a stamping mill, extracting valuable minerals from pieces of rock. While he and others preferred better-paying mine work to textile work, work in the mines could mean long hours and unpleasant conditions. As one of relatively few interviews in this collection that focus on mining, this selection should be of use to researchers interested in issues concerning that industry, ranging from daily routines to deadly accidents.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on March 12, 2008).

Interview participants: Dock E. Hall, interviewee; Brent Glass, interviewer.

Duration: 01:24:03.

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 Jennifer Joyner.  Sound recordings digitized by Aaron Smithers.

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Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series H, Piedmont industrialization, interview H-0271, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Patricia Crowley. Original transcript: 47 p.

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

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