[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...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Michigan Labor History Society (sponsoring body.)
Other Authors: Beber, Lavina (Interviewee)
Dobija, Jane (Interviewer)
Babson, Steve
Language:English
Series:Detroit labor history tours.
Subjects:
Beber, Lavina > Interviews.
Automobile industry workers > Michigan > Detroit > Interviews.
Beber, Lavina > Family.
Coal miners > Pennsylvania.
Labor unions.
Automobile factories > Michigan > Detroit.
Women automobile industry workers > Rating of.
Wages > Automobile industry workers.
International Union, United Automobile, Aircraft, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America.
Beber, Lavina > Political activity.
Oral histories.
Sound recordings.
Genre:
Interviews.
Oral histories.
Sound recordings.
Local Note:
MSU: Gift of John Revitte.
Physical Description:1 audio file (46 min., 52 sec.)
Format: Audio Software

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