Oral history interview with Leighton McLendon 1975
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- Name
- McLendon, Leighton (Interviewee)
- Nackman, Mark E (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Leighton McLendon 1975
- Abstract
- Training as electrician and welder; Gair plant construction work, Savannah; duties as pulp mill and paper mill electrician; attitude towards union-management negotiations; history of electricians union; safety concerns, equipment, troubleshooting; summer youth employment program, bull gang work; changes in race relations in the South; Gair merger with Continental Can; industrial relations departmen t; loss of fraternity in plant.
- Collection Name
- Continental Group project
- Subjects
- Electricians; Labor unions; Factory management; Manufacturing processes; Consolidation and merger of corporations; United States Race relations; McLendon, Leighton; Continental Can Company
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1975
- Note (Biographical)
- Electrician.
- Note
- Interviewed by Mark E. Nackman on May 1, 1975.
- Note (Provenance)
- Leighton McLendon, Gift 1976
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 13546378
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Time-Based Media
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-eqmv-xd53
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.