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Title: Telegram, Samuel Harden Church to John J. Raskob and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1934-03-18
Date(s): 1934-03-18
Contributor(s): Church, Samuel Harden, 1858-1943 (correspondent), Raskob, John J. (John Jakob), 1879-1950 (former owner)
Description: Telegram to FDR forwarded to Raskob.
Collection ID: John J. Raskob papers (Accession 0473)
Hagley ID: m473_20100630_053
Collection: John J. Raskob papers

Title: Understanding Norms: Part 2
Date(s): 1970/1979~, 1970, 1979
Contributor(s): Supermarket Institute (sponsor)
Description: Film explains the importance of norms and how they influence employees in the workplace. Hosted by Mike O'Conner of the Supermarket Institute.
Collection ID: Sponsored and industrial motion picture film collection (Accession 2018.222)
Hagley ID: FILM_2018222_FC54
Collection: Sponsored and industrial motion picture film collection

Title: Sally Hawkins
Date(s): 1973
Contributor(s): Herman Miller, Inc. (Sponsor), Asch and Associates (Production company)
Description: Advertisement for the Action Office and Action Secretary furniture series from Herman Miller. Young professional Sally Hawkins explains the technology and workflow behind word processing and how companies must ensure their employees are happy with their work spaces to avoid turnover.
Collection ID: Sponsored and industrial motion picture film collection (Accession 2018.222)
Hagley ID: FILM_2018222_FC195
Collection: Sponsored and industrial motion picture film collection

Title: Understanding Norms: Part 1
Date(s): 1970/1979~, 1970, 1979
Contributor(s): Supermarket Institute (sponsor), Fred A. Niles Communications Centers (producer)
Description: Film explains the importance of norms and how they influence employees in the workplace. Hosted by Mike O'Conner of the Supermarket Institute. Film used to teach the SMI/Coca-Cola Normative System Program.
Collection ID: Sponsored and industrial motion picture film collection (Accession 2018.222)
Hagley ID: FILM_2018222_FC53
Collection: Sponsored and industrial motion picture film collection

Title: Appliance Park: Where the World’s Finest Major Appliances are Made
Date(s): 1952
Contributor(s): General Electric Company (Sponsor)
Description: Film promoting General Electric's new Appliance Park in Louisville, Kentucky. Details how appliances such as washing machines, ranges, water heaters, and dishwashers are developed and constructed in the five buildings at the park. Also highlights the various employee and community perks provided by General Electric, including a fire department, security staff, cafeterias, and medical dispensaries.
Collection ID: Sponsored and industrial motion picture film collection (Accession 2018.222)
Hagley ID: FILM_2018222_FC255
Collection: Sponsored and industrial motion picture film collection

Title: The Bell Heard 'Round the World
Date(s): 1950
Description: Film promoting the National Cash Register Company (NCR) as a place of employment. Encourages viewers to consider working for NCR by discussing the company's products, work environment, benefits, and community service. Script: Al Weeks; director: Orlando Lippert; camera: John Niklasch; editing: Carl Himm; narration: Vincent Pelletier; music: Peter Cavallo.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films (Accession 2019.227)
Hagley ID: FILM_2019227_FC166
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Interview with Joyce Harris, 2017 September 11
Date(s): 2017-09-11
Contributor(s): Harris, Joyce (interviewee), Plasky, Joseph G. (interviewer)
Description: In her interview, Joyce Harris describes her career at the DuPont Kinston plant. As a child, she lived in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, where her parents worked in the local cotton mill. Later they moved to the Virginia Beach area to help with the war effort. Her father was hired at DuPont on start up as a mechanic and the family moved to Grifton, which at the time was becoming the community for the DuPont workers. It was in this environment that Harris finished school and after year in...
Show moreIn her interview, Joyce Harris describes her career at the DuPont Kinston plant. As a child, she lived in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, where her parents worked in the local cotton mill. Later they moved to the Virginia Beach area to help with the war effort. Her father was hired at DuPont on start up as a mechanic and the family moved to Grifton, which at the time was becoming the community for the DuPont workers. It was in this environment that Harris finished school and after year in nursing school applied for a job at the DuPont Kinston. During this time, she married Roger Harris (whose interview is also archived). She was offered a position at DuPont and her first assignment was bobbin prep, a standard entry level job at the plant which entailed cleaning yarn from spinning bobbins and inspecting them prior to reuse.

Harris then moved to the Draw wind area. At the time this was an all-women assignment. The spinning assignment was all men at the time. The assignments which Harris explains was to doff, restock, restring, and patrol the machines. She could not remember the number of machines but it was a lot. This was the end of the two step yarn production process where the yarn was drawn, twisted and wound on customer bobbins. Harris describes the different jobs within the draw winding area.

Harris then got a transfer to the PT lab by an ambiguous job selection process. Harris felt comfortable in the new role, and she explains the test machines prior to automation and after automation, concluding that manually testing was far less accurate than the automated testing. She describes all the yarn test machines and their purpose. As management changes allowed her to increase her responsibility she did so, becoming the scheduler for group.

Harris also describes the maternity leave policy for Kinston. The policy was clear and unchangeable but required the mother to leave at 5 months and return 2 months after birth. Service was lost during this period but the job was saved for the employee's return. Harris recalls the early policy (1961 to 1964) but is unclear as to later changes.
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Collection ID: Oral history interviews with former employees of DuPont Company's Textile Fibers Department (Accession 2010.215)
Hagley ID: 2010215_20170911_Harris_Joyce
Collection: Oral history interviews with former employees of DuPont Company's Textile Fibers Department

Title: Interview with Cheryl Estes, 2017 June 07
Date(s): 2017-06-07
Contributor(s): Estes, Cheryl (interviewee), Plasky, Joseph G. (interviewer)
Description: In her interview, Cheryl Estes provides insight into the experience of female employees at the DuPont Martinsville, Virginia plant. Estes describes her first job as a wage role operator in the textile area organization and work crews, detailing that the textile area contained 350 drawtwisters with 144 "women's only" operating positions on each drawtwister. Estes describes the changing policies for female employees during her time at Martinsville, significantly that that plant jobs were opened...
Show moreIn her interview, Cheryl Estes provides insight into the experience of female employees at the DuPont Martinsville, Virginia plant. Estes describes her first job as a wage role operator in the textile area organization and work crews, detailing that the textile area contained 350 drawtwisters with 144 "women's only" operating positions on each drawtwister. Estes describes the changing policies for female employees during her time at Martinsville, significantly that that plant jobs were opened up to all employees regardless of sex and the maternity leave policies were updated. Once the jobs were opened, Estes describes how she progressed to higher levels with the goal of entering a craft position. Testing was required for entry and Estes studied and passed the test. DuPont supported her during a three year period of study at a local community college to become a plant electrician. Estes describes her completion of the work and assignment as a relief shift electrician. Her next move was to a group called field maintenance which had construction responsibility for the plant projects. Estes advanced to maintenance planner, which was a promotion from wage roll to nonexempt.

Estes also speaks about the shutdown of the Martinsville and mentions that many employees believed the local union and its hostile attitude toward DuPont was at least partly responsible for the closing.
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Collection ID: Oral history interviews with former employees of DuPont Company's Textile Fibers Department (Accession 2010.215)
Hagley ID: 2010215_20170607_Estes
Collection: Oral history interviews with former employees of DuPont Company's Textile Fibers Department

Title: Interview with John Hall, 2017 April 25
Date(s): 2017-04-25
Contributor(s): Hall, John E., 1946- (interviewee), Plasky, Joseph G. (interviewer)
Description: John Hall describes his career as an operator at the DuPont Martinsville plant, and his interview provides insight into plant life from a wage roll viewpoint. It provides a clear understanding of the problems and lack of solutions DuPont developed while trying to modernize the spinning areas.

Hall's early years describe what it was to live in the rural mountainous area of southwest Virginia. After several attempts he was hired by DuPont in 1968. It is significant to note that Hall describes...
Show moreJohn Hall describes his career as an operator at the DuPont Martinsville plant, and his interview provides insight into plant life from a wage roll viewpoint. It provides a clear understanding of the problems and lack of solutions DuPont developed while trying to modernize the spinning areas.

Hall's early years describe what it was to live in the rural mountainous area of southwest Virginia. After several attempts he was hired by DuPont in 1968. It is significant to note that Hall describes the hiring as 500/600 in 1965 and 300 in 1968. He was in the latter group and the large group ahead of his affected his seniority all through his career.

Hall describes the T28 and T29 spinning machines which were the light denier modernized spinning machines. They were installed at Martinsville and later moved to Chattanooga. The process was not at all liked by the operators and Hall describes how and why. He relates the life of an operator in the spinning area and also relates various concerns about management decisions.
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Collection ID: Oral history interviews with former employees of DuPont Company's Textile Fibers Department (Accession 2010.215)
Hagley ID: 2010215_20170425_Hall_John
Collection: Oral history interviews with former employees of DuPont Company's Textile Fibers Department

Title: Interview with Dwight Crainshaw, 2017 May 03
Date(s): 2017-05-03
Contributor(s): Crainshaw, Dwight (interviewee), Plasky, Joseph G. (interviewer)
Description: In his interview, Dwight Crainshaw discusses his career as an operator at the Cape Fear site, where he was the first operator to be hired. Crainshaw describes how he opted for the operations job after deciding he did not have the basic skills to be a mechanic. Since the highest skill level in operations was the continuous polymerization operator (CPO) this was the assignment for Crainshaw. DuPont gave him and others a six month training program aimed at understanding the polymerization...
Show moreIn his interview, Dwight Crainshaw discusses his career as an operator at the Cape Fear site, where he was the first operator to be hired. Crainshaw describes how he opted for the operations job after deciding he did not have the basic skills to be a mechanic. Since the highest skill level in operations was the continuous polymerization operator (CPO) this was the assignment for Crainshaw. DuPont gave him and others a six month training program aimed at understanding the polymerization process. This was book learning in the plant under construction. Since Crainshaw was hired first and went directly to CPO he completely bypassed the spinning assignments, which was very unusual. He discusses many events where he (and others) took the lead to address and correct a problem. He mentions the "minimum adequate" concept that was used to build this plant. This was a clear attempt to avoid the excesses that existed in previous plants. The concept "not to staff for emergencies" is also mentioned and was one of the key principles of the Cape Fear Plant. Crainshaw worked as CPO for a number of years and related his experiences in that assignment and then he moved to power. He discusses the power operator assignment and how two operators ran the area, and this was a good example of the "not to staff for emergencies" concept. He also mentions the Iranian trainees and offers his viewpoint of their brief training period.
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Collection ID: Oral history interviews with former employees of DuPont Company's Textile Fibers Department (Accession 2010.215)
Hagley ID: 2010215_20170503_Crainshaw
Collection: Oral history interviews with former employees of DuPont Company's Textile Fibers Department

Title: Interview with James D. McCullough, 2009 June 21
Date(s): 2009-06-21
Contributor(s): McCullough, James D. (interviewee), Plasky, Joseph G. (interviewer)
Description: In his interview, McCullough outlines his career as supervisor for wind-up development for the Textile Fibers Department at DuPont Co., providing perspective on the development and commercialization process as employed in the department and the later decision by management to outsource development work to external companies. He outlines the following steps in the process: building experimental demonstration machine, building prototypes, and finally redesigning for fabrication and commercial...
Show moreIn his interview, McCullough outlines his career as supervisor for wind-up development for the Textile Fibers Department at DuPont Co., providing perspective on the development and commercialization process as employed in the department and the later decision by management to outsource development work to external companies. He outlines the following steps in the process: building experimental demonstration machine, building prototypes, and finally redesigning for fabrication and commercial installation. He details the ongoing tension with local management as to how the process should be split between the Engineering Development Laboratory (EDL) and the design division.

McCullough also details his early life in New Kensington, Pennsylvania, describing his parents' careers, the initial growth of his interest in mechanical engineering, his education, his first engineering projects at DuPont, and the three years he spent in an engineering field group at Kinston. He also mentions being honored for his post-retirement work managing a multi-ending large package program at the Seaford plant.
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Collection ID: Oral history interviews with former employees of DuPont Company's Textile Fibers Department (Accession 2010.215)
Hagley ID: 2010215_20090621_McCullough
Collection: Oral history interviews with former employees of DuPont Company's Textile Fibers Department

Title: Interview with William K. "Bill" Moles, 2009 April 22
Date(s): 2009-04-22
Contributor(s): Moles, William K. (interviewee), Plasky, Joseph G. (interviewer)
Description: Moles' interview chronicles his experience in the Navy, his health issues throughout his life, workplace sabotage, and DuPont's healthcare and workplace environment.
Collection ID: Oral history interviews with former employees of DuPont Company's Textile Fibers Department (Accession 2010.215)
Hagley ID: 2010215_20090422_Moles
Collection: Oral history interviews with former employees of DuPont Company's Textile Fibers Department

Title: Interview with Judy Hall, 2017 April 10 and 2017 April 11
Date(s): 2017-04-10
Contributor(s): Hall, Judy (interviewee), Plasky, Joseph G. (interviewer)
Description: Judy Hall discusses her career at the Martinsville plant, providing insight into the experience of women in the textile fibers industry. Hall's first job was filling customer orders. She explains this in detail and the fact that it was an all-woman job. She left this job to enter a clerical position, which were also all staffed with women. Her explanation of the jobs and the things that happened bring focus into women's position and life in industry. Her description of the "Rigid" calendars...
Show moreJudy Hall discusses her career at the Martinsville plant, providing insight into the experience of women in the textile fibers industry. Hall's first job was filling customer orders. She explains this in detail and the fact that it was an all-woman job. She left this job to enter a clerical position, which were also all staffed with women. Her explanation of the jobs and the things that happened bring focus into women's position and life in industry. Her description of the "Rigid" calendars she was exposed to in one area highlights the culture of the time. Hall moved through many different assignments and describes the areas she worked for in the clerical positions. She also describes accepting a transfer to Chattanooga as the Martinsville Plant was shutting down. A full transfer for nonexempt personnel was a new thrust by DuPont and a major change for Hall, who had spent her whole life in the Martinsville area. She also mentions her post-DuPont work for Invista.
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Collection ID: Oral history interviews with former employees of DuPont Company's Textile Fibers Department (Accession 2010.215)
Hagley ID: 2010215_20170410_Hall_Judy
Collection: Oral history interviews with former employees of DuPont Company's Textile Fibers Department

Title: Picture Yourself Here: Contributing To A Positive Work Environment
Date(s): 2005
Contributor(s): National Automobile Dealers Association (originator)
Collection ID: National Automobile Dealers Association audiovisual materials and publications (Accession 2014.274)
Hagley ID: NADA2014001_Picture_Yourself
Collection: National Automobile Dealers Association

Title: Reopening: Guidance for General Office Settings, Guidance for General Office Settings
Date(s): 2020
Contributor(s): American Industrial Hygiene Association (author)
Collection ID: Guidance document
Hagley ID: Ebook_20210006
Accession: 111517782
Collection: Born digital publications

Title: Planning Your Return to the Workspace, Return to the Workspace
Date(s): 2020
Contributor(s): Knotel, Inc. (copyright holder)
Hagley ID: Ebook_20210023
Accession: 111526445
Collection: Born digital publications

Title: This is Du Pont. The Story of Life in a Large Corporation
Date(s): 1957
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: Published Collections
Hagley ID: PC_fHD96519D94A5_16
Collection: This is Du Pont

Title: This is Du Pont. The Story of Employment Opportunities
Date(s): 1954
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: Published Collections
Hagley ID: PC_fHD96519D94A5_10
Collection: This is Du Pont

Title: This is Du Pont. The Story of Man and His Work
Date(s): 1959
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: Published Collections
Hagley ID: PC_fHD96519D94A5_18
Collection: This is Du Pont

Title: Flexibility, Collaboration, and Balance: The Evolving Workplace of the COVID Era , Evolving Workplace of the COVID Era
Date(s): 2020
Contributor(s): Knotel (author)
Description: Results of a comprehensive survey launched in April 2020 to assess employees' satisfaction with working from home during COVID-19 and to probe their attitudes toward return to the workplace.
Collection ID: Flex forward
Hagley ID: Ebook_20200004
Accession: 227093
Collection: Born digital publications

Title: Working Together
Date(s): 1951
Contributor(s): Thompson Products, inc. (Sponsor), Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company)
Description: Training film for new Thompson Products employees. Discusses the company's history, business model, benefits, and strategy of "working together" to manufacture precision parts. Follows the story of employee Richard "Dick" Brown and his progress as a machine operator. Ends with a reading of the "Pledge" the Thompson management team has made to the members of the organization.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films (Accession 2019.227)
Hagley ID: FILM_2019227_FC146
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Industrial Worker Along the Brandywine, 1800-1840
Date(s): 1956-08
Contributor(s): Hancock, Harold Bell, 1913-1987 (author)
Collection ID: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation research reports (Accession 1645)
Hagley ID: MS1645_035a
Collection: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation research reports

Title: Industrial Worker Along the Brandywine, 1840-1870
Date(s): 1957-08-30
Contributor(s): Hancock, Harold Bell, 1913-1987 (author)
Collection ID: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation research reports (Accession 1645)
Hagley ID: MS1645_035b
Collection: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation research reports

Title: Interview with Albert N. "Al" Register, 2009 December 18
Date(s): 2009-12-18
Contributor(s): Register, Albert N. (interviewee), Plasky, Joseph G. (interviewer)
Description: In his interview, Register discusses the advent of quality assurance, changes in technology, globalization and ultimate failures in Dacron and Nylon businesses. He remarks on taking pride and satisfaction in training, teamwork, and the positive motivation of employees during times of change.
Collection ID: Oral history interviews with former employees of DuPont Company's Textile Fibers Department (Accession 2010.215)
Hagley ID: 2010215_20091218_Register
Collection: Oral history interviews with former employees of DuPont Company's Textile Fibers Department

Title: Working Together production script
Date(s): 1951
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Thompson Products, inc. (sponsor), Siedel, Frank (Author), Storycraft, Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) (Author)
Description: A script for a training film production for new employees of the Thompson Products Incorporated Company. Discusses the company's history, business model, benefits, and strategy of "working together" to manufacture precision parts. It follows the story of employee Richard "Dick" Brown and his progress as a machine operator. The production ends with a reading of the "Pledge" the Thompson management team has made to the members of the organization.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_16_28
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

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