Oral history interview with Pauline Haugh Leber, 1998 October 09.

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Oral history interview with Pauline Haugh Leber, 1998 October 09.

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Interview with Pauline Haugh Leber, factory worker, concerning her experiences growing up in Wrightsville, Pennsylvania and employment at York Safe and Lock Company during World War II. Description of family farm on outskirts of Wrightsville; comments on dairy farming; attendance at Wrightsville High School; description of early work as a seamer at Standard Garment; employment at Hollis Manufacturing doing piecework; description of workday as a pieceworker; influence of rationing during World War II; employment at York Safe and Lock during the war; operating boring, milling, threading machines and lathes; comments concerning relationship between men and women on the job; absenteeism; influence of family members military service on quality of her work manufacturing antiaircraft guns; comments on her reaction to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's death; adjustment to working in a sewing factory after the war ended.

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University of North Texas Library, UNT

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University of North Texas Library, UNT

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