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- Betty talks about her Russian-Jewish ancestry, leaving home in Toronto at 16 to avoid cultural obligations, and coming to the U.S. She hired into Fisher in 1946 and again in May 1948. Betty talks about factory life for the few women including lower pay, harder work, community restrooms, and stereotypical perceptions of factory women. Betty shares her opinion of the union and management, describes her union activity, smoking, strikes, layoffs, and paying union dues.
- Date Issued:
- 2005-09-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- African American autoworker Horace Sheffield talks about his union activism in the UAW, his role in preventing a race war in Detroit in 1940s, and his role in organizing Ford. Sheffield also talks about his association with UAW leaders, serving on the union staff, working to integrate the union leadership, and forming the Trade Union Leadership Council (TULC).
- Date Issued:
- 1982-02-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Barack Obama talks about his plan to reform the broken system of contracting to cut back on wasteful spending. Steps to this plan include tough new contracting guidelines in the administration, smart investments while cutting wasteful spending, and strengthening oversight.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-03-04T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Monte tells of being hired in December 1984 into the Paint Shop spraying clear coat. He describes the jobs in paint and working 13 hours a day in paint repair. Monte talks about relations with supervisors, race relations, substance abuse, his catering business and business in the plant.
- Date Issued:
- 2005-12-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Chris Yarborough, intern for the Christman Company in Lansing, Michigan and a student majoring in Construction Management at MSU, talks about his duties on the project to renovate, restore, and construct new portions of the Snyder-Phillips Halls complex to house the new Residential College in the Arts and Humanities (RCAH) on the campus of Michigan State University. Yarborough explains the work he does to facilitate the work of the management team and he describes other projects on which he has worked and how he settled on his major. Ends abruptly.
- Date Issued:
- 2007-10-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In this installment of "Know your city," Dr. Willis Dunbar profiles community recreation initiatives in Kalamazoo, MI. Dunbar interviews Glenn Allen Jr., vice mayor of Kalamazoo, Dr. Loy Norrix, superintendent of Kalamazoo schools, H. Loree Harvey, a member of the Kalamazoo Board of Education, and Dr. Harold C. Taylor, director of the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Community Research about topics ranging from budget allocation for recreation in Kalamazoo to plans for improving recreational opportunities in the city.
- Date Issued:
- 1948-05-22T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- The Little Brothers Company is featured on this installment of "Western Michigan at work" hosted by Dr. Willis Dunbar. Dunbar gives a history of the Little family, from the time Henry Little moved to Michigan from New York in 1831 until Alvin and George R. Little took over the Little Brothers Company in the 1920'. He explains the operation of the grain elevators which are the primary component of the business and Ed Bauer, the company's farm service person, explains the company's efforts to work with farmers to solve problems and help keep their skills current.
- Date Issued:
- 1950-08-08T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Poor management, corruption and vested political interests have made Kenya's sugar industry so inefficient that the country's goal of attaining self-sufficiency in sugar production will remain unattainable for a long time. To explain the persistence of this situation, the article examines the management practice in the industry, prevailing production arrangments and the problems associated with it, focusing on the politics that pervades the entire system.
- Date Issued:
- 2001-06-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- African Journal of Political Science
- Description:
- Chris Yarborough, intern for the Christman Company in Lansing, Michigan and a student majoring in Construction Management at MSU, talks about his duties on the project to renovate, restore, and construct new portions of the Snyder-Phillips Halls complex to house the new Residential College in the Arts and Humanities (RCAH) on the campus of Michigan State University. Yarborough explains the work he does to facilitate the work of the management team and he describes other projects on which he has worked and how he settled on his major. Ends abruptly.
- Date Issued:
- 2007-10-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Edna Penny Rice talks about her twenty-four year military career, first in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and then its successors, the Women's Army Corps, and the Women in the Air Force. Rice says that she enlisted because she thought she "was as good" as her brother and her fiance and felt very patriotic. Rice says that she was inducted in July 1942 and worked in personnel and administration in every military theater of operation. She describes working and living conditions at her various posting, her uniforms and her leadership and administrative responsibilities. Rice says she was was pushed into becoming an officer and never planned on making the service a career. Rice is interviewed by Marjorie Brown.
- Date Issued:
- 1986-03-07T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project