[Doreen Howard discusses her career as a production worker and UAW Suggestions Plan assistant at the Fisher Body plant in Lansing, MI].

Doreen describes being hired at Fisher in November 1984 after receiving a degree from MSU. She expresses surprise at the diversity and at the male dominated environment. Doreen talks about the stress on her marriage, the lack of control over ones job, and her naivety about factory life. She remarks...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: United Auto Workers Local 602/General Motors Oral History Project
Other Authors: Howard, Doreen (Interviewee)
Fedewa, John (Interviewer)
Coulter, Marilyn (Interviewer)
McQuaid, Cheryl (Interviewer)
Language:English
Published: [2005]
Subjects:
Howard, Doreen > Interviews.
Women automobile industry workers > Michigan > Lansing > Interviews.
Business agents (Labor union officials) > Michigan > Lansing > Interviews.
Howard, Doreen.
Automobile industry and trade.
Diversity in the workplace > Michigan > Lansing.
Howard, Doreen > Marriage.
Job stress > Michigan > Lansing.
Automobile industry workers > Education (Higher) > Michigan > Lansing.
Interviews.
Sound recordings.
Genre:
Interviews.
Sound recordings.
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Local Note:
MSU: Gift of UAW/GM.
Physical Description:1 electronic audio file (62 min., 55 sec.) : digital, WAV, MP3 files.
Format: Audio Software

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