[Louis Garcia discusses his career as frontline worker and manager at REO Motor Car Company and Diamond REO Trucks, Inc.].

Louis Garcia discusses his career as an assembly worker, press operator, and manager at REO Motor Car Company/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc, in Lansing, Mi, between 1946 and 1975. Garcia talks about his Hispanic heritage and his childhood spent as a migrant farm worker. He says that in his early years at...

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Corporate Author:	REO Memories (Project)
Other Authors:	Garcia, Louis C. (Interviewee), Fine, Lisa M. (Interviewer), Bradley, Shirley J. (Interviewer)
Language:	English
Published:	[1992]
Subjects:	Garcia, Louis C. > Interviews. Garcia, Louis C. Garcia, Louis C. > Childhood and youth. Cappaert, Francis > Influence. Reo Motor Car Company > Interviews. Diamond REO Trucks, Inc. > Interviews. Diamond REO Trucks, Inc. > Finance. Diamond REO Trucks, Inc. > Employees. Automobile industry workers > Michigan > Lansing > Interviews. Automobile industry and trade. Racism in the workplace > Michigan > Lansing. Plant shutdowns > Michigan > Lansing. Pension trusts > Termination. Oral histories.
Genre:	Interviews. Oral histories.
Online Access:	Listen to sound recording - All users (Michigan State University Libraries)
Physical Description:	1 electronic audio file (102 min., 5 sec.) : digital, WAV, MP3 files.
Format:	Audio Software

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