Rocking the Boat...Interviews and research materials, 1930-2001 (majority within 1992-1998)

Summary

Creator:

O'Farrell, Brigid.

Abstract:

Transcripts of interviews and research material accumulated in preparation for the book, Rocking the Boat: Union Women's Voices, 1915-1975. Transcripts include interviews with Dorothy Haener, Maida Springer-Kemp, Carmen Lucia, Ah Quon McElrath, and Esther Peterson.

Extent:

1 linear foot

Language:

English

Call Number:

0175 Aa 2

Authors:

Finding aid created by Carol Whittaker, October 2001

Background

Scope and Content:

This collection contains transcripts of interviews and research materials used in the editing of Rocking the Boat: Union Women's Voices, 1915-1975. The records have been divided into four series; Transcripts, Background Materials, Miscellaneous, and Audio/Visual Materials.

Biographical / Historical:

In 1975, Joyce Kornbluh initiated the oral history project "The Twentieth Century Trade Union Woman: Vehicle for Social Change" through the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations at the University of Michigan. This project compiled interviews of women involved with the labor movement between 1900 and 1970. One of the interviewers during this project was Brigid O'Farrell, then with the Women's Research Center at Wellesley College. The desire to reach a broader audience with the information and insights provided by the interviews brought O'Farrell and Kornbluh together in the early 1990s to begin work on a book that would accomplish this goal. The book Rocking the Boat: Union Women's Voices, 1915-1975, combines interviews conducted during that original oral history project with follow-up interviews conducted by O'Farrell and Kornbluh in the early 1990s into an edited volume that highlights some of the many faces involved with the labor movement of the 20th century.

Acquisition Information:

This collection was donated to the library by Brigid O'Farrell, co-editor of Rocking the Boat (donor no. 9146 ) in 2001.

Accruals:

No further additions to the records are expected.

Rules or Conventions:

Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)

Related

Additional Descriptive Data:

Related Material

Researchers should note that transcripts from the original interviews conducted for the oral history project "The Twentieth Century Trade Union Woman: Vehicle for Social Change" (1978-1979) are housed at the Bentley Historical Library under the title Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, Women and Work Program.

Subjects

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Subjects:

Rocking the boat.
Women labor union members -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Formats:

Photographs.
Sound recordings.

Names:

O'Farrell, Brigid.
Haener, Dorothy, 1917-
Peterson, Esther, 1906-1997.
Lucia, Carmen, 1902-
McElrath, Ah Quon, 1915-
Kemp, Marcia Springer.