[Interview of automobile factory worker and labor activist Lavina "Bea" Beber].
Lavina "Bea" Beber talks about her family of coal miners in Pennsylvania and her father's union involvement. She says that she and her husband moved to Detroit in 1941 and took in boarders while her husband worked. Beber says that she was hired at Dodge to hang fenders in 1951 and talks about factor...
| Uniform Title: | Detroit labor history tours.
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| Language: | English |
| Series: | Detroit labor history tours.
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MSU: Gift of John Revitte. |
| Physical Description: | 1 audio file (46 min., 52 sec.) |
| Format: | Audio Software |
| Summary: |
Lavina "Bea" Beber talks about her family of coal miners in Pennsylvania and her father's union involvement. She says that she and her husband moved to Detroit in 1941 and took in boarders while her husband worked. Beber says that she was hired at Dodge to hang fenders in 1951 and talks about factory work, how management slowly figured out that women were more productive and took less time off then men, her pay and benefits, and living in Hamtramck, MI. She also says that she got more involved in the UAW through the years, was elected as recording secretary for her local and once held a one person sit down strike. Ends abruptly. |
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| Note: | Title supplied. Electronic resource. Part of the Detroit labor history tours sponsored by the Michigan Labor History Society. The interview is conducted as source material for the book "Working Detroit : the making of a union town" by Steve Babson. |
| Call Number: | Voice 42297 DB42297 |
| Playing Time: | 00:46:52 |
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Recorded 1981 |