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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Interview with Edna L. Hopkins [Sound Recording 01]]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Shipbuilding industry--Oregon--Portland]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[World War, 1939-1945--Women--Oregon--Portland]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Women--Employment--Oregon--Portland]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation‚ÄîEmployees]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Henry J. Kaiser Company‚ÄîEmployees]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Kaiser Company (Portland, Or.)--Employees]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Kaiser Company, Inc. (Vancouver, Wash.)--Employees]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Commercial Iron Works (Portland, Or.)--Employees]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Tape 1, Side 1.This oral history interview with Edna L. Hopkins was conducted by Amy Kesselman on May 28, 1981. In this interview, Hopkins discusses her early life in Kentucky and Tennessee, including raising a family and working at an aircraft plant. She then talks about coming to Oregon in 1943 and shares her experiences as a welder in the Kaiser shipyards in Vancouver, Washington. She describes her training, her job duties, and the dangers of the job. She discusses her union membership, as well as balancing work and home life. She speaks about her life after the war, including working at the Jantzen Knitting Mills. She shares her opinion on the women‚Äôs movement and feminism, shares her observations of the treatment Black people received in Portland, and talks about her children, their families and their careers. Incomplete transcript available (37 pages)..]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Hopkins, Edna L. (Edna Lee), 1915-1987]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[Northwest Digital Heritage]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[5/28/81]]></dcterms:date>
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    <dcterms:references><![CDATA[https://digitalcollections.ohs.org/interview-with-edna-l-hopkins-sound-recording-01]]></dcterms:references>
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