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Oral history interview with Murphy Yomen Sigmon, July 27, 1979 interview H-0142, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Interview H-0142, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) (other title)
Interview with Murphy Yomen Sigmon, July 27, 1979 (portion title)

Sigmon, Murphy Yomen 1913-1989 (Interviewee). Dilley, Patty (Interviewer). Sigmon, Murphy Yomen Mrs (Interviewee). Southern Oral History Program. (Added Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project) (Added Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. (Added Author).

Summary: Murphy Yomen Sigmon entered the workforce at the age of fourteen and held a variety of jobs in North Carolina industries before a mill shutdown ended his long working life. He began his laboring life in a shoelace factory, held a number of positions in a cotton mill, ran his own sock-making outfit, worked in a hosiery mill, and at the time of the interview, was dabbling in furniture-making out of a home workshop. In this interview, Sigmon describes these experiences, from taking swimming breaks while working as a doffer in a cotton mill, struggling to find work during the Great Depression, or enlisting his wife to help him start a sock-making business. Most of this interview addresses the details of the mill as a workplace, but the interviewer does take some time to ask Sigmon his opinions on subjects such as unions and social stratification among southern laborers.

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Physical Description: 1 electronic resource
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Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2007.

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General Note:	Duration: 01:30:43. Interview participants: Murphy Yomen Sigmon, interviewee; Mrs. Sigmon, interviewee; Patty Dilley, interviewer. Text encoded by Jennifer Joyner. Sound recordings digitized by Aaron Smithers. This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digital library, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South. Title from menu page (viewed on June 3, 2008).
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files: ca. 144.5 kilobytes, 166.1 megabytes.
Original Version Note:	Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series H, Piedmont industrialization, interview H-0142, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Jean Houston. Original transcript: 36 p.
Funding Information Note:	Funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this interview.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Web browser with Javascript enabled and multimedia player.