Solomon Barkin Interview 3

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0070

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Solomon Barkin Interview 3

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Scope and Contents of the Collection

From the Collection:

The Uprising of '34 Collection demonstrates how communities can be impacted in contemporary ways by history and memory, decades after a series of events occur. Veterans of the events of 1934 and their descendants-black, white, mill worker, manager, union, and non-union- were interviewed about mill village life, work conditions, southern contemporaneous culture as well as the strike itself. This finding aid describes the digitized oral history-style interviews available in Georiga State University Library's Digital Collections.

Dates

Creation: 1987-1995

Creator

Barkin, Solomon, 1907-2000 (Interviewee, Person)

Restrictions on Access

All of the interviews are available online in GSU's Digital Collections.

Biographical Note

Solomon Barkin was a member of the Labor Advisory Board for the Nation Recovery Administration (NRA). He later became the director of research for the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers' Union.

Extent

1 item(s) (audio (26:35 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Barkin discusses union organizing in the South done by the United Textile Workers of America (UTWA), the impact of paternalism on textile workers willingness to organize, the role of women in the textile workers strike of 1934, the pressures the strikers faced and how that affected their ability to strike, the reason the UTWA chose to strike and other topics.