Oral history interview with Corenna Smeltzer, 1999 August 11.

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Oral history interview with Corenna Smeltzer, 1999 August 11.

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Interview with Corenna Young Smeltzer, factory worker, concerning her experiences as a riveter at Armstrong Cork and Rubber Company, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, during World War II. Effects of the Great Depression on her family; her first job experience in a knitting mill; incentives to seek a job as a riveter with Armstrong, 1942; transportation problems; shift work; wage discrimination; length of the workday and workweek; riveting work on F4U Corsair fuselages; reaction of male employees to the hiring of women; sexual harassment; financial and patriotic motivation; purchase of war bonds; work clothing; rationing; her role as an air raid warden in her hometown; end of World War II and its effects on employment, 1945; effects of defense work on her self-esteem and self-confidence; her influence on her daughters' career choices.

37 leaves ; 29 cm.

University of North Texas Library, UNT

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University of North Texas Library, UNT

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University of North Texas. Oral History Collection.

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Smeltzer, Corenna Y., 1915-

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Marcello, Ronald E.

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Rivertown at War Oral History Project.

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