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Item Title
"What they should do is make it mandatory for adequate ventilation in these places."
Author/Creator
Interviewer: Carroll, Thomas D.
Created/Published
September 06, 1994
Notes
Interview with Patrick Boyle, an employee at Garden State Cutting Co.
Summary of audio segment: Some talk about sewing, which PB says is coming back, especially in Passaic. But there are a lot of sweatshops there. That's ridiculous. PB says a sweatshop means no pay, no room, no air, no insurance, no nothing. Just sit there and sew all day, with a big basket on your side, sewing. That's a sweatshop, and you can't breathe in these places. You can't. It's worse than this place, material all over, piled, and you're breathing all of that shit. And who knows what kind of material, you can have polyester, you can have nylon in your lungs, you can have mylar, like a plastic, it's very unhealthy. They should make it mandatory for adequate ventilation in these places,even spreading shops. Even spreading shops. Because PB has been in a lot of shops, and they're alldark and dingy. And the dust doesn't get a chance to settle, because people walking up and down, the machine makes wind, just blowing, blowing, and blowing. There's no escaping it.
Subjects
Interviews
Oral history
Sound recordings
Clothing industry
Ethnography
Interviews
United States--New Jersey--Paterson
21st Avenue
Garden State Cutting Company
Object Type
Related Names
Narrator: Boyle, Patrick
Medium
Digital Audio Tape
Language
English
Call Number
AFC 1995/028: WIP-TDC-A017; A: 00:46:00
Reproduction Number
AFC 1995/028: WIP-TDC-A017
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 tca01708
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afcwip.tca01708