Reminiscences of Carolyn Reed : oral history, 1980.

Biographical Note

Household worker, union organizer.

Scope and Contents

Adoption at seven: feelings about adoptive family, natural mother and great-aunt; childhood in South Carolina: school, employment of women, attitude towards housework, childhood ambitions; domestic employment: personal experiences, independence, satisfaction, problems of women workers, paternalism, value; formation of union, Household Technicians of America, Executive Director from 1970: organizing problems, relations with Service Employees' Union, picketing; Urban League; Presidents Kennedy and Carter on women workers; National Advisory Commission on Women; White House visits and employees there; household worker, circa 1965-1978, with Clayburgh family: reactions to political activity, contract, Jill Clayburgh.

Subjects

• Adopted children.
• Household employees--Interviews.
• Household employees--Legal status, laws, etc.
• Interviews.
• Labor unions--Officials and employees.
• Oral histories.
• Reed, Carolyn.
• Sandlin, Martha, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• United States--Social life and customs.
• Women--Employment.