[Hattie Greene, an African American, discusses her 40-year career as a production worker and UAW member at the Fisher Body plant in Lansing, MI].

Hattie describes being hired in April 1953 and working in the Paint Shop. She talks about wages, undesirable jobs, and discrimination. Hattie discusses relations with coworkers, sexual harassment, swing shifts, family life, and day-to-day life in the factory.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: United Auto Workers Local 602/General Motors Oral History Project
Other Authors: Greene, Hattie (Interviewee), Coulter, Marilyn (Interviewer), Howard, Doreen (Interviewer), McQuaid, Cheryl (Interviewer), Johnson, Linda (Interviewer)
Language:English
Published: [2005]
Subjects:
Greene, Hattie > Interviews.
Greene, Hattie.
Greene, Hattie > Family.
African American automobile industry workers > Michigan > Lansing > Interviews.
Women labor union members > Michigan > Lansing > Interviews.
Automobile industry and trade.
Wages > Automobile industry workers > Michigan > Lansing.
Discrimination in employment > Michigan > Lansing.
Interpersonal relations > Michigan > Lansing.
Sexual harassment > Michigan > Lansing.
Interviews.
Sound recordings.
Genre:
Interviews.
Sound recordings.
Online Access:
Connect to: Listen to sound recording - All users (Michigan State University Libraries)
Local Note:
MSU: Gift of UAW/GM.
Physical Description:1 electronic audio file (43 min., 14 sec.) : digital, WAV, MP3 files.
Format: Audio Software
Description
Summary:
Hattie describes being hired in April 1953 and working in the Paint Shop. She talks about wages, undesirable jobs, and discrimination. Hattie discusses relations with coworkers, sexual harassment, swing shifts, family life, and day-to-day life in the factory.
Note:Title supplied.
Electronic resource.
Call Number:Voice 15514
Playing Time:00:43:14
System Details:Mode of Access: World Wide Web.
Participant or Performer:
Interviewee, Hattie Greene ; interviewers, Marilyn Coulter, Doreen Howard, Cheryl McQuaid, Linda Johnson.
Event Details:
Recorded on Nov. 16, 2005, as part of the United Auto Workers Local 602/General Motors Oral History Project.