[Shirley Sanborn discusses her career as a GM salaried secretary at the Fisher Body plant in Lansing, MI].

Shirley talks about being hired in July 1949 as a material control clerk and being treated badly. She comments on how few women were in the plant mostly working in payroll. Shirley describes her work, the challenges, disparate pay, the Women's Club store and charities, the corporate reorganization t...

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Corporate Author: United Auto Workers Local 602/General Motors Oral History Project
Other Authors: Sanborn, Shirley (Interviewee), Howard, Doreen (Interviewer), Coulter, Marilyn (Interviewer), McQuaid, Cheryl (Interviewer), Rademacher, Doug (Interviewer), Johnson, Linda (Interviewer), Fedewa, John (Interviewer)
Language:English
Published: [2005]
Subjects:
Sanborn, Shirley > Interviews.
Sanborn, Shirley.
General Motors Corporation > Reorganization.
Secretaries > Michigan > Lansing > Interviews.
Automobile industry and trade.
Diversity in the workplace > Michigan > Lansing.
Sex discrimination in employment > Michigan > Lansing.
Interpersonal relations > Michigan > Lansing.
Collective labor agreements.
Interviews.
Sound recordings.
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Interviews.
Sound recordings.
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MSU: Gift of UAW/GM.
Physical Description:1 electronic audio file (41 min., 56 sec.) : digital, WAV, MP3 files.
Format: Audio Software

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