Mabel McQueen discusses her career at REO Motor Car Company and Diamond REO Trucks, Inc.
Mabel McQueen talks about her career at REO Motor Car Company/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc, in Lansing, MI, from 1953 to 1975. She describes her youth on the family farm, working at Motor Wheel through the war, her work as a secretary and bookkeeper, her supervisors, and her feelings about the union. McQueen says that many of her family members also worked at REO and that REO itself felt like one big family. She says that the bankruptcy was a terrible time and that it was heartbreaking watching friends and co-workers being fired and losing their pensions. The interviewers are Shirley Bradley and Lisa Fine. Recorded as part of the REO Memories oral history project.
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- In Collections
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Lansing Auto Town
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Date
- 1992-06-16
- Interviewees
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McQueen, Mabel
- Interviewers
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Fine, Lisa M.
Bradley, Shirley J.
- Contributors
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REO Memories (Project)
- Subjects
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McQueen, Mabel
Reo Motor Car Company
Diamond REO Trucks, Inc
Automobile industry workers
Automobile industry workers--Labor unions
Corporate culture
Families
Plant shutdowns--Psychological aspects
Supervisors, Industrial
Michigan--Lansing
- Material Type
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Sound recordings
- Language
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English
- Extent
- 01:28:22
- Venue Note
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Interviewed and recorded in Dimondale, MI, by Shirley J. Bradley and Lisa M. Fine, June 16, 1992.
- Holding Institution
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Vincent Voice Library
- Call Number
- Voice 16269
- Catalog Record
- http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b8663559