- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Robert Ragan Interview 2
- Creator:
- Ragan, Robert Allison, 1938-
- Contributor to Resource:
- Stoney, George C.
Stoney, James B. - Date of Original:
- 1991-08-23
- Subject:
- Textile workers
Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
Rural-urban migration
Textile manufacturers
Great Depression - Location:
- United States, Georgia, North Carolina, 34.92535, -85.26773
United States, North Carolina, Gaston County, Gastonia, 35.26208, -81.1873
United States, North Carolina, Gaston County, Gastonia, Ragan Spinning Company - Medium:
- oral histories (document genres)
videotapes - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Robert Ragan is the son of the owner of Ragan Spinning Company in Gastonia, N.C.
Ragan discusses how mill workers were recruited, the necessity of building mill villages, the differences between the New England textile industry and the Southern textile industry, efficiency in the mills, the textile workers' strike of 1934 and how the Great Depression affected the textile industry in 1934. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0539
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/230
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- Copyright to this item is owned by Georgia State University Library. Georgia State University Library has made this item available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. For more information see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/40/
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright to this item is owned by Georgia State University Library. Georgia State University Library has made this item available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. For more information see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Robert Ragan, interviewed by George Stoney and Jamie Stoney, 23 August 1991. L1995-13_AV0539, The Uprising of '34 Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
Click the blue timestamps in the transcript above to navigate to any point in the video and transcript. - Extent:
- 00:30:42
- Original Collection:
- Southern Labor Archives
The Uprising of '34 Collection
https://archivesspace.library.gsu.edu/repositories/2/resources/472 - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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