Oral history interview with Melvin Wilks, 1988 Feb. 12 / conducted by Kathy Norris.

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Oral history interview with Melvin Wilks, 1988 Feb. 12 / conducted by Kathy Norris.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63912733

Melvin Wilks discusses job tasks, women's and men's jobs, machinery, unions, race relations, working conditions, labor-management relations, brown lung, mill villages, and changes he has seen in his more than 40 years working in mills.

Typescript: 19 leaves, bound ; 29 cm.Sound recording: 1 sound cassette : analog.

Columbus State University, Simon Schwob Memorial Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7904424

Columbus State University, Simon Schwob Memorial Library

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Mill Worker Oral History Project.

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Wilks, Melvin,

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Melvin Wilks began working at Muscogee Mills (later bought by Fieldcrest) in 1947. He worked in several mills for a total of over 40 years. During this time he did several different jobs, including doffing cloth, laying up filling, weaving, fixing looms, supervising, and inspecting looms. From the description of Oral history interview with Melvin Wilks, 1988 Feb. 12 / conducted by Kathy Norris. (Columbus State University). WorldCat record id: 63912733 ...

Norris, Kathy

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Fieldcrest Mills Inc.

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Fieldcrest Mills was a Marshall Fields Company that produced an assortment of textiles including blankets, bedspreads, towels, bed sheets, bath accessories, bath rugs, rugs and furniture coverings; their warehouses were located in Draper, Leaksville and Spray, North Carolina. These three towns combined in 1967 to become Eden, North Carolina. The company changed in 1986 when Fieldcrest Mills merged with Cannon Mills of Kannapolis, North Carolina, becoming Fieldcrest Cannon, Inc. Then in 1997 the ...

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Muscogee Manufacturing Co. (Columbus, Ga.)

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The Muscogee Manufacturing Co. (Columbus, Ga.), a textile firm, was established in 1867 by Col. George Parker Swift. In 1963, the Company merged with Fieldcrest Mills, Inc. From the description of Muscogee Manufacturing Co. records, [ca. 1867-1963]. (Columbus State University). WorldCat record id: 38476128 ...