| Interviewee | SMELTZER, Corenna Young (b. 1915) |
| Interview ID # | OH 1308 |
| Date(s) of interview | |
| Description | Her experiences as a riveter at Armstrong Cork and Rubber Company, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, during World War II. Effects of the Great Depression on her family; her first job experience in a knitting mill; incentives to seek a job as a riveter with Armstrong, 1942; transportation problems; shift work; wage discrimination; length of the workday and workweek; riveting work on F4U Corsair fuselages; reaction of male employees to the hiring of women; sexual harassment; financial and patriotic motivation; purchase of war bonds; work clothing; rationing; her role as an air raid warden in her hometown; end of World War II and its effects on employment, 1945; effects of defense work on her self-esteem and self-confidence; her influence on her daughters' career choices. |
| Interviewer(s) | Ronald E. Marcello |
| Physical Description | 41 pp. |
| Terms of Use | Open |
