Working in Paterson Project collection, 1993-2002

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Title	Working in Paterson Project collection, 1993-2002
Collection Number	AFC 1995/028
Inclusive Dates	1993-2002
Location	American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Extent	39 boxes
Extent	21 linear feet
Extent	12,327 items (5,400 manuscript pages, 6,621 graphic materials, 90 original sound recordings, 204 electronic media, and 12 artifacts)
Creator	American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
Languages	English, Italian, Spanish
Finding Aid Permalink	Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af007004
LCCN Permalink	LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2004695193
Summary	The collection consists of manuscripts, sound recordings, photographs, artifacts, publications, and ephemera from an ethnographic field project conducted by the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, which documented occupational culture in Paterson, New Jersey in 1994. Subjects include the textile industry, industrial architecture, machine shops, labor unions, family owned businesses, dressmaking, and ethnic restaurants. A single manufacturing firm, Watson Machine International, was the focus of an in-depth study. The project focused on the ways in which community life and values are shaped by work and how the theme of work intersects with other themes, namely family, ethnicity, gender, neighborhood, religion, and change over time.
Online Content	A substantial portion of the collection, with interpretive essays, is available as Working in Paterson: Occupational Heritage in an Urban Setting, an online resource compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/collafc.af000014.