Oral history interview with Roque Torrea, 1975.

Biographical Note

Foreman.

Scope and Contents

Family and move to the United States; employment with Los Angeles Can Company; acquisition by Continental Can; general line procedure; unionization, World War II production; women workers; promotions and transfers.

Subjects

• Cannery workers--Interviews.
• Consolidation and merger of corporations.
• Containers.
• Continental Can Company.
• Interviews.
• Labor unions--Officials and employees.
• Nackman, Mark E., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Personnel management.
• Torrea, Roque--Interviews.
• Women--Employment.