[Mabel McQueen discusses her career at REO Motor Car Company and Diamond REO Trucks, Inc.].

Mabel McQueen talks about her career at REO Motor Car Company/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc, in Lansing, MI, from 1953 to 1975. She describes her youth on the family farm, working at Motor Wheel through the war, her work as a secretary and bookkeeper, her supervisors, and her feelings about the union. Mc...

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Corporate Author: REO Memories (Project)
Other Authors: McQueen, Mabel (Interviewee), Fine, Lisa M. (Interviewer), Bradley, Shirley J. (Interviewer)
Language:English
Published: [1992]
Subjects:
McQueen, Mabel > Interviews.
McQueen, Mabel.
McQueen, Mabel > Childhood and youth.
McQueen, Mabel > Family.
Reo Motor Car Company > Interviews.
Diamond REO Trucks, Inc. > Interviews.
Automobile industry workers > Michigan > Lansing > Interviews.
Automobile industry and trade.
Corporate culture > Michigan > Lansing.
Supervisors, Industrial > Michigan > Lansing.
Automobile industry workers > Labor unions > Michigan > Lansing.
Plant shutdowns > Michigan > Lansing > Psychological aspects.
Diamond REO Trucks, Inc. > Employees.
Oral histories.
Genre:
Interviews.
Oral histories.
Online Access:
Listen to sound recording - All users (Michigan State University Libraries)
Physical Description:1 electronic audio file (88 min., 22 sec.) : digital, WAV, MP3 files.
Format: Audio Software
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Mabel McQueen talks about her career at REO Motor Car Company/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc, in Lansing, MI, from 1953 to 1975. She describes her youth on the family farm, working at Motor Wheel through the war, her work as a secretary and bookkeeper, her supervisors, and her feelings about the union. McQueen says that many of her family members also worked at REO and that REO itself felt like one big family. She says that the bankruptcy was a terrible time and that it was heartbreaking watching friends and co-workers being fired and losing their pensions. The interviewers are Shirley Bradley and Lisa Fine. Recorded as part of the REO Memories oral history project.
Note:Title supplied.
Electronic resource.
Call Number:Voice 16269
Playing Time:01:28:22
System Details:Mode of Access: World Wide Web.
Event Details:
Interviewed and recorded in Dimondale, MI, by Shirley J. Bradley and Lisa M. Fine, June 16, 1992.