Oral history interview with Charles Harmon, 1998 October 12
- Resource Type:
- Manuscript (Paper)
- Publication:
- 1998
- Serial Holdings:
- Shelved in Oral History Trancsripts Collection, University Archives.
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- Summary:
- Interview with Charles Harmon, factory worker, concerning his experiences as a civilian defense worker at Philadelphia Gear Works, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during World War II. Growing up in Wrightsville, Pennsylvania; effect of the Great Depression on family life; attendance at Williamson Free School of Mechanical Trades, Media, Pennsylvania for training as a patternmaker; employment at Philadelphia Gear Works as a layout man and machinist; conversion from peacetime to wartime production during World War II; election as vice- president of the International Association of Machinists; union-management relationships during World War II at Philadelphia Gear Works; employment of women; overhaul of the USS Washington; return to Wrightsville to work at Riverside Foundry in 1945; production of hand grenades and rifle grenades; management-union relationships at Riverside Foundry; conversion to civilian product manufacturing at war's end.
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- Languages:
- English
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- Item content: English
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- General Notes:
- Interview conducted in 1998 for the Rivertown at War Oral History Project. Interviewer: Dr. Ronald E. Marcello, Professor of History, University of North Texas.
- Physical Description:
- 57 leaves ; 29 cm
- Call Numbers:
- OH 1268
- OCLC Numbers:
- 318079393