Etta Mae Zimmerman Interview 3

Partial Transcript: ETTA MAE ZIMMERMAN:-- 52, most of them's 52.

GEORGE STONEY: Mmm-hmm

ZIMMERMAN: My youngest brother and my youngest sister both died with cancer.

Segment Synopsis: Etta Mae discusses her family members both living and deceased.

Subjects: Working class women--Family relationships

Partial Transcript: ETTA MAE ZIMMERMAN: One man had five children, but now back in my early remembrance, we had to bunk up, but not that bad.

Segment Synopsis: Etta Mae Zimmerman discusses living in a mill house, working in the mill, and makes arrangements to meet with her sister

Keywords: Leona Zimmerman Parham; mill villages; women mill workers

Subjects: Women textile workers; Working class--Dwellings

Partial Transcript: F1; This was a pasture at one time.

Segment Synopsis: Two unidentified women discuss working in the textile mill.

Keywords: Rainwater sisters; women mill workers

Subjects: Women textile workers

Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: Do you remember when they started speeding up the machinery?

Segment Synopsis: Two unidentified women talk about working in the mill and the shift from the 12 hour work day to the 8 hour workday.

Keywords: eight hour workday; stretch-out; women mill workers

Subjects: Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945; Women textile workers

Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: Now, did your parents work in the mill?

Segment Synopsis: An unidentified woman discusses going to work as child in the textile mills.

Subjects: Child labor; Rural-urban migration; Textile workers

Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: When you had your children, did a doctor deliver your babies?

Segment Synopsis: Two unidentified women discuss how giving birth in Newnan has changed over the years.

Subjects: Newnan (Ga.); Textile workers--Health and hygiene; Working class women--Family relationships

Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: I must say I was remarking this morning, I read the Newnan paper last night and I couldn't believe there were so many drug related --

Segment Synopsis: Two unidentified women discuss the use of drugs and alcohol in Newnan in 1990s and the 1930s.

Keywords: eviction from mill village houses; mill villages

Subjects: College students--Alcohol use; Drinking of alcoholic beverages; Textile workers; Working class--Recreation

Partial Transcript: F1: Now I'll tell you another thing, I'm 77 years old, I got my first time to be a patient to be admitted into the hospital.

Segment Synopsis: An unidentified woman discusses working as a nurse.

Subjects: Nurses; Textile workers--Health and hygiene

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: (inaudible) tell me a little bit about some of the things you used to do together in the room? Tell me about the atmosphere in the room, in the winding room.

Segment Synopsis: Two unidentified women discuss working in the mill and how it impacted their education.

Keywords: winders; women mill workers

Subjects: Strikes and lockouts--Textile industry; Women textile workers; Working class--Education

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Before I asked you, um, you were talking about bosses and you said there were favorites.

Segment Synopsis: Two unidentified women discuss how their time in the textile mills shaped the relationship to authority and what kind of bosses they had.

Keywords: mill managers

Subjects: Nurses; Women textile workers