Oral history interview with Joseph Arrigo, 1975.

Biographical Note

Assistant foreman in shipping department.

Scope and Contents

Work for New Orleans Can Company, 1917; early coffee cans; integration in the plant; Continental Can's acquisition of New Orleans Can, 1928; wages; work as general line maintenance man; working conditions, safety, unionization; can assembly foreman; Continental Can's new plant construction; transfer to packers' can line supervision; qualities of a good plant manager; resentment of industrial engineering; management and union relationship; beer and beverage can lines.

Subjects

• Arrigo, Joseph--Interviews.
• Containers.
• Continental Can Company.
• Factory management.
• Interviews.
• Labor unions--United States.
• Manufacturing processes.
• Nackman, Mark E., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Supervisors, Industrial--Interviews.