Summary Information

Title: Meats, Markets, and Mergers: Oral Histories on Food Store Work and Unionization in Southern Wisconsin Since the 1930s
Inclusive Dates: 1981-1982

Call Number: Mss 696; Audio 930A; Audio 939A; Audio 947A; Audio 951A; Audio 953A; Audio 954A; Audio 957A-966A; Audio 968A-970A; Audio 981A

Quantity: 0.6 cubic feet (2 archives boxes) and 66 tape recordings

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

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Abstract:

Interviews with 20 former and current retail food employees and union representatives concerning such topics as customer relations, productivity, small-scale grocery operation, changes in meat cutting, employee-management relations, unionization, male-female working relationships, and the role of women in the retail food industry. Also included are edited transcripts. The interviews were conducted with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities by Jim Cavanaugh and Michael Gordon for the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Interviewees are Robert Akamatsu, Harold Breithaupt, Kenneth Doherty, Henry Dubinski, Frederick Gartzke, Paul Hampel, Conchera Hannon, Ethel Henning, Robert Heslip, Mary Kazmer, Alice Kohn, Walter McMahon, John Puent, Faye Roidt, Mildred Shindel, Walter Stoklosa, Raymond Toelle, Paul Whiteside, June Wuthrich, and Charles Zalesak. These workers were members of either the Retail Clerks International Union or the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00696

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