Oral history interview with Iver J. Olsen, 1974.

Biographical Note

Plant manager; interviewees are married.

Scope and Contents

Family, immigration to the United States, early life in Tacoma, Washington; machinist apprenticeship; early jobs; beginning career with Continental Can as a die maker; master mechanic in Oakland and Seattle; women employees during World War II; seventeen years as plant manager; union-management relations.

Subjects

• Container industry--Equipment and supplies.
• Continental Can Company.
• Factory management.
• Interviews.
• Nackman, Mark E., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Olsen, Iver J.--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Supervisors, Industrial--Interviews.
• Women--Employment.