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Date of Interview
7-7-2004
Duration of Audio File
Audio file #1 1:20:08; Audio File #2 0:17:00
Interviewee
Claire Bolduc
Age
69 (2015)
Occupation/ Work History
One of the key activists and founders of the MWA. (Maine Woodsman's Association)
Keywords
Woodcutters Strike, Maine Labor History, Maine Paper Industry
Abstract
A Franco-American from northern Maine, Bolduc was first hired as to analyze poor working and economic conditions for loggers in northern Maine in the early 1970s. She helped lead an effort to create a woodcutters’ organization that was a precursor and became part of the MWA. She describes the poor working conditions – cold, isolation, frequent injuries and death, and over the very hard lives led by loggers. Bolduc also a vivid portrait of company power wielded
Document Type
Interview
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Interview with Claire Bolduc by Michael Hillard, July 7, 2004, Stories of Maine's Paper Plantation, Digital Maine, Maine's Economic Improvement Fund, Digital Commons, University of Southern Maine
