Oral history interview with Jacob Greco [electronic resource], 1975

Biographical Note

Pressman.

Scope and Contents

Turn of the century immigrant family life in New York and St. Louis; at 14, fly boy at St. Louis Can; press feeder for Brecht Can Company; purchase of Brecht Can by United States Can, subsequent acquisition of United States Can by Continental; pressman apprenticeship, working conditions for pressmen; brief impressions of Continental personnel.

Subjects

• Cannery workers--Interviews.
• Consolidation and merger of corporations.
• Containers.
• Continental Can Company.
• Factory management.
• Greco, Jacob--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Nackman, Mark E., interviewer.
• Oral histories.