Interview
The four hours of interview with Scott Hoyman were conducted on May 15, 1985, at the O'Hare Holiday Inn in suburban Chicago. Because of scheduling problems, Hoyman was not interviewed during the earlier part of the TWUA Oral History Project, conducted in 1977-1978.
The interview attempts to cover Hoyman's entire life in four hours because the possibility of a follow-up interview was not good. Because of this, the discussion may seem cursory or rushed at times. The interview did, however, provide useful insights into the TWUA experience in the South during the 1950s-1970s, particularly the union's negotiating and organizing strategies and the J.P. Stevens Campaign.
Abstract
The tapes for this interview have two tracks: a voice track containing the discussion and a time track containing time announcements at intervals of approximately five seconds. The abstract lists, in order of discussion, the topics covered by each tape, and indicates the time-marking at which point the beginning of the particular discussion appears.
Thus, the researcher by using a tape recorder's fast-forward button may find expeditiously and listen to discrete segments without listening to all of the taped discussion. For instance, the user who wishes to listen to the topic on “Influence of Missionary Background on Hoyman” should locate the place on the second track of side one, tape one, where the voice announces the 04:00 time-marking (the voice says at this point, “Four Minutes”), and at this point switch to the first track to hear the discussion. The discussion on “Influence of Missionary Background on Hoyman” continues until approximately 05:15 at which point discussion of the next topic “Education” begins.
Notice that in most cases sentences beneath each headline explain more about the contents of the topic. For example the sentence underneath “Influence of Missionary Background on Hoyman” gives further details on what appears on the tape between 04:00 and 05:15.
The abstract is designed to provide only a brief outline of the content of the tapes and cannot serve as a substitute for listening to them. However the abstract will help the researcher easily locate distinct topics and discussions among the many minutes of commentary.
Index
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