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Title
Part 04: Rapid industrial development/working conditions (Windows Media version)
Creator
Thomas Lewandowski, 1939 - (prod., narr.)

Institution
Oakland Community College

Subject
Automotive industry -- Michigan -- Hamtramck.

Subject
Automobile industry workers -- Michigan -- Hamtramck.

Subject
Urbanization -- Michigan -- Hamtramck.

Item Number
EX01b004

Relation
Extracts from oral histories of Hamtramck, MI in the Albert J. Zak Memorial Library (Hamtramck), Detroit Public Library (Burton Collection), Hamtramck Historical Collection, Library of Michigan, Macomb County Library, Oakland Community College Libraries.

Type
sound, image

Format
mpeg2

Description
Beatrice Kobe Adamski, Hamtramck Public Library Director and Michigan Librarian of the Year, shares her experience of tired auto workers returning from work. Frank Krysztof, first generation Polish-American, describes building automobiles for pennies a day before assembly line production. Mrs. Margaret McGuire Tenerowicz , wife of Congressman and Mayor Dr. Rudolph Tenerowicz, describes how industrial accidents did occur in this fast paced environment. Stephen Majewski, the city's second mayor (1926-1928) and Mrs. Iris Page Butler, an African-American public health nurse, reflect on the same topics.

Part 04: Rapid industrial development/working conditions (Windows Media version)

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