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“A Culture of Caring”: Documenting Home Health Care Workers

Posted by: Stephanie Hall

This guest post is by Professor Bob Bussel of the University of Oregon Labor Education and Research Center in Eugene, who organized the documentary team that produced the collection now online as “Taking Care”: Documenting Home Health Care Workers that is part of the Occupational Folklife Project.  Home care workers represent what scholars describe as a …

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“Taking Care: Documenting the Occupational Culture of Home Health Care Workers” Now Online

Posted by: Stephanie Hall

The American Folklife Center is delighted to announce that an important new oral history collection documenting the lives and careers of home health care workers throughout the state of Oregon is now available online through the Library of Congress’s website. This fieldwork project is part of American Folklife Center’s Occupational Folklife Project and the 7th …

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Circus Workers Now Online in the Occupational Folklife Project

Posted by: Stephen Winick

The American Folklife Center is delighted to announce the online presentation of an important new oral history collection documenting the lives and careers of multi-generational circus workers in Hugo, Oklahoma. The ‘Big Top’ Show Goes On: An Oral History of Occupations Inside and Outside the Canvas Tent, created by librarians Tanya D. Finchum and Juliana …