Patrick Cudahy Strike and Plant Closing of 1987-1989 Oral History Project Records
1994
- Patrick Cudahy Strike and Plant Closing of 1987-1989 Oral
History Project
UWM Manuscript Collection 123
- .6 cubic ft. (2 boxes)
- 38 digital files (20.5 GB)
UW-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives / Milwaukee Area Research Ctr.
(Map)
Collection consists of oral history interviews with
administrators and workers at the Patrick Cudahy meatpacking plant in Cudahy, Wisconsin who
were on strike from 1987 to 1989. Dr. Michael Gordon at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee conducted the interviews in 1994. For each interviewee there is a
cassette recording and abstract of the interview. The topics discussed include family
background; job history at Patrick Cudahy; working conditions; attitudes towards the
company, the strike, and scab labor; and how the strike lasted for two years. Of particular
interest for details about the financial and working conditions of the plant, and strike
strategies are the interviews with Cudahy President Roger Kapella, Director of Human
Resources Daniel Habighorst, and United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local P-40
President Mark Rosenbaum.
English
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