The builders

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Date
1967
Main contributor
International Union of Operating Engineers
Summary
This film shows 50 Job Corps trainees learning to operate heavy equipment in a pre-apprenticeship program sponsored by the Operating Engineers at Jacobs Creek, Tennessee. The apprentices are described in the film as high school dropouts from underprivileged backgrounds. As part of the apprenticeship program, they divide their time between education classes and on-the-job training in preparation for entry-level jobs that might open the door to them becoming journeymen engineers.
Publisher
National Training Program of the International Union of Operating Engineers
Subjects
Labor union locals; Labor unions and education; Apprenticeship programs
Location
Tennessee
Collection
Labor
Unit
Special Collections and University Archives
Language
English
Rights Statement
Copyright Undetermined
Terms of Use
Collection may be protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the University of Maryland Libraries at http://www.lib.umd.edu/special/contact/home.
Physical Description
film reels
Notes
2014-001-RG97-003
626-2
AR1985-0195
This material was digitized as part of the "Advancing Workers Rights in the American South: Digitizing the Records of the AFL-CIO’s Civil Rights Division" project, supported by a Digitizing Hidden Collections grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from the Mellon Foundation.
Other Identifiers
Filename: labor-086907; Catalog Key: 31430059608531

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