Citrus Project Interview
Item
Title
Citrus Project Interview
Identifier
2019.001.039
Type
Sound
Description
Anonymous interviewee describes her lifelong relationship with labor beginning in Mexico at the age of thirteen, to migrating to the United States and setting as a sorter for the National Orange Company in Riverside. She describes the hardships of labor in packinghouses, wages, supervisors, and her aspirations for a better job.
Subject
California Citrus State Historic Park; Citrus Fruit Industry; Citrus Fruit Industry, Labor; Citrus Packinghouse; Immigration; Mexican Immigration; Labor Organizing; National Orange Company Packing House;
Spatial Coverage
California, Southern; Inland Empire (Calif.); Riverside (Calif.); Mexico
Temporal Coverage
1990
Creator
Buffy Holllis
Date
10/30/1990
Contributor
Anonymous
Format
Audio Cassette
Language
eng
Rights
Duration
00.25.49