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Working in Paterson

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Item Title

"My mother left for work at 6:30 and she didn't come back until six at night."

Author/Creator

Interviewer: Taylor, David Alan, 1951-

Created/Published

August 10, 1994

Notes

Interview with retired textile union official Marianna Costa at her home in Haledon, New Jersey.
Summary of audio segment: Work days were long for her parents. "My mother left for work at 6:30 and she didn't come back until six at night. It was a long day between transportation and a ten-hour work day she was away almost twelve hours. [My father] would leave at about seven and he was out doing construction, in was in building, and he would get back by five -- an hour before she did because of the transportation. He had a bicycle so he was able to do better time. And she had to walk to a bus and walk the distance back home."

Subjects

Hours of labor
Interviews
Italian Americans
Oral history
Retirees
Sound recordings
Textile industry
Ethnography
Interviews
United States--New Jersey--Haledon

Object Type

sound recording-nonmusical

Related Names

Narrator: Costa, Marianna

Medium

Analog Audio Cassette

Language

English

Call Number

AFC 1995/028: WIP-DT-A010; A: 00:09:10

Reproduction Number

AFC 1995/028: WIP-DT-A010

Part of

Working in Paterson Folklife Project

Repository

Library of Congress, Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Digital ID

afcwip dta01001
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afcwip.dta01001