Sound Recording, [West Yorkshire]
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, [West Yorkshire]
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A089
Creator(s): Bryon, Fiona
Site Location(s): Subject - Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.7965, -1.54785 )
Date(s): 18 December 1980
Size and medium: 1 audiocassette.; Duration: 30' 49".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414139
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
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.
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