[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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Bibliographic Details
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.
Automobile industry workers > Michigan > Lansing > Interviews.
Reo Motor Car Company > Interviews.
Diamond REO Trucks, Inc. > Interviews.
Garcia, Louis C.
Automobile industry and trade.
Garcia, Louis C. > Childhood and youth.
Racism in the workplace > Michigan > Lansing.
Cappaert, Francis > Influence.
Diamond REO Trucks, Inc. > Finance.
Plant shutdowns > Michigan > Lansing.
Pension trusts > Termination.
Diamond REO Trucks, Inc. > Employees.
Oral histories.
Genre:
Interviews.
Oral histories.
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Physical Description:1 electronic audio file (102 min., 5 sec.) : digital, WAV, MP3 files.
Format: Audio Software

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