Sound Recording, [West Yorkshire]
Description
Mrs. Blackburn talks about her work in the Leeds tailoring industry: Parents' occupations; sewing from childhood; first job - ladies' dress factory in Woodhouse Lane - machinist, female boss; next job at quilted clothing factory; left to have first child, then some work from home, part-time hours, balancing work with childcare; redundancy - company training schemes, government grants; piece work; working conditions; social cliques; women's Trade Union involvement compared with men's; employers'/bosses' attitudes; singing whilst working; age of female workers; practical jokes and rites of passage - dressing bride-to-be, birthdays, cakes and sweets; support/help of husband; whole families working in the same trade; perceptions of tailoring as career for women; set-up of machines, works do; conversation between collector [?and Mrs. Blackburn], ?recorded in a factory, re. the collector's university course; printing fabric. 3 of 5.
Metadata
| Identifier | kyg21fdj |
| IRN | 414139 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A089 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/kyg21fdj |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Bryon, Fiona |
| Date | 18 December 1980 |
| Size and Medium | 1 audiocassette., Duration: 30' 49". |