Oral history interview with Esther Peterson, 1983
- Name
- Peterson, Esther, 1906- (Interviewee)
- Bruns, Scott (Interviewer)
- Edwin, Ed (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Esther Peterson, 1983
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Esther Peterson, 1983
- Abstract
- Family background; Brigham Young University, 1927, Teachers College, 1930; Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry; development of political philosophy; organizing teachers' and garment workers' unions; federal legislative representation of unions, 1940s-60s; special assistant to the President for Consumer Affairs, Assistant Secretary of Labor, 1961-69; Truth in Packaging issue
- Collection Name
- Individual interviews oral history collection
- Subjects
- Consumer affairs directors; Government executives--United States; Consumer protection; Labor laws and legislation; Labor unions; Women in politics; United States Politics and government 1945-1989; Peterson, Esther, 1906-; United States. Dept. of Labor
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1983
- Physical Description
- 321 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- Consumer adviser; government executive; interviewee married Oliver R. Peterson
- Note (Funding)
- Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Note
- Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010
- Service copy (44 kHz, 16 bit) and rendered version (96 kHz, 24 bit) of sound file derived from a digital preservation master digitized at 96 kHz, 24 bit
- Interviewed by Scott Bruns; Ed Edwin
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
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- Catalog Record
- 7139889
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Time-Based Media
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-3543-z369
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.