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- 2014 (Creation)
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8 digital audio files, 8 Word files
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Transferred from Scottish Oral History Centre, Department of History September 2021.
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Oral history project conducted on 1st and 8th October 2014 by Rebekah Russell for her history honours dissertation entitled 'Deindustrialisation in Springburn and the impacts on women's lives in 1960-1990' at the University of Strathclyde. The project aimed to gather information as to the nature of working life and the impact of local factory closures on women who lived or worked in the Springburn area of Glasgow during the period 1960-1990. 8 retired women were interviewed at the Alive & Kicking Project, Springburn: Betty Long, Catherine Rogers, Isabella Martin, Joan Pollock, May McAleese, Molly Roy, Margaret Cullen and Susan McFarlane. Topics covered in interview included descriptions of daily life during the period, details of job losses, redundancies, health issues, gender stereotypes encountered in the workplace, struggles for equal rights and equal pay with male work colleagues, and the effect upon the women, their families and their community of local factory closures in Springburn during the Thatcher Government of the 1980s. Some transcripts are incomplete.
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No access restrictions. Please contact repository for access.
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- English
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This collection is part of the Scottish Oral History Centre Archive.
There is a collection about Springburn that was conducted in the mid-1980s, which resulted in a book called The Springburn Experience (Gerard Hutchison and Mark O'Neill) in Glasgow Museums Resource Centre: https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/museums/venues/glasgow-museums-resource-centre-gmrc