United Packinghouse Workers of America Oral History Project Interviews, 1985-1986
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Title: United Packinghouse Workers of America Oral History Project Interviews
Inclusive Dates: 1985-1986

Creator:
  • United Packinghouse Workers of America Oral History Project
Call Number: Mss 698; Tape 1106A

Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box) and 300 tape recordings

Repository:
Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:
Interviews conducted by Rick Halpern and Roger Horowitz with 128 interviewees, primarily members and former members of local unions of the United Packinghouse Workers of America (CIO). The interviews concern the interviewees' personal backgrounds, experiences during the Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee era, the formation of the UPWA and the growth of government regulation in the 1940s, internal dissension, the aggressive national union civil rights policy and its implementation on the local level, the role of women in the UPWA, union organization and operation within the plants, various job actions and strikes, and plant closings and the decline of the union in the 1960s.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00698
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