Title
Interview with Dana Babb
Streaming Media
Date of Interview
2-21-2003
Duration of Audio File
1:06:45
Interviewee
Dana Babb
Age
Born in 1915, was 87 or 88 at time of interview, died in 2010 at age 95
Gender
Male
Occupation/ Work History
Worked at S.D. Warren from 1937 until 1976. Began in mail delivery in mill, then worked in accounting for over 30 years. Was senior mill accountant at time of retirement.
Role
Management
Mill or Principal Employer
S. D. Warren
Mill Location
Westbrook, Maine 04092
Keywords
S.D. Warren, paper mill, management, paternalism
Abstract
Dana Babb offers a management perspective in the mill's practices and roles in people's lives in the mill and Westbrook. Babb describes mill paternalism - a company store, extensive credit provided to workers, and large donations by mill to community institutions.
Document Type
Interview
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Dana Babb, interview by Michael Hillard, February 21, 2003, Stories of Maine's Paper Plantation, Digital Maine, Maine's Economic Improvement Fund, Digital Commons, University of Southern Maine
