Oral history interview with Harriet Herring, February 5, 1976

Description:

Harriet Herring, a research associate at the Institute for Research in Social Science and professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, recalls her early life and experiences studying labor in North Carolina mill towns in the first half of the 20th century. The bulk of the interview focuses on Herring's efforts to study the high turnover at cotton mills and the industry's resistance to her investigations. Some recollections about Herring's family and eminent sociologist Howard T. Odum did not merit excerption but might still be useful for researchers.

subjects: Interviews,  Women sociologists,  Textile industry,  Textile workers,  Social conditions,  Sociology,  Study and teaching,  Education,  Labor unions,  Social life and customs,  Women college students,  Students,  University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Institute for Research in Social Science,  University of North Carolina (1793-1962),  Meredith College (Raleigh, N.C.)

People: Harriet L. Herring,  Howard Washington Odum (1884-1954)

Places: North Carolina,  Kinston (N.C.),  Raleigh