Myint, Ma Aye, 1983- interviewee McKerley, John W., interviewer Occupational Folklife Project, sponsor sound recording-nonmusical spoken word still image Sound recordings. Digital photographs-Color-2010-2020. Interviews. Oral histories. Personal narratives. iau 2017 monographic 2017-01-20 eng bur

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1 sound file (wav) (00:49:50) : digital, sound. 1 photograph : digital, Camera Raw, color. 1 manuscript : digital, pdf file. Ma Aye Myint was born in the Rakhine state in Burma/Myanmar. She lived in a small village by the sea. Her family grew rice that they sold in a nearby city. She attended government schools and studied history. She hoped to gain a position in the government, but was left waiting for several years (a situation that she attributed to discrimination based on her ethnicity and lack of political connections). Facing poverty at home, she fled across Thailand to Malaysia, where she worked in a restaurant while awaiting refugee status and resettlement. She was eventually able to follow a cousin, who had previously come to live in Marshalltown, Iowa. Myint first found work in a restaurant in Tama, Iowa, but in search of better pay and greater opportunity, she later took a position in the JBS meatpacking plant in Marshalltown. She worked with other people from Burma on a fat trimming line, eventually stepping up to become a steward to address her coworkers' grievances as part of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1149. Collection is open for research. To request materials, please contact the Folklife Reading Room at Duplication of collection materials may be governed by copyright and other restrictions. Thomas Lian served as an interpreter. Recorded in Marshalltown, Iowa, January 20, 2017. Recent immigrant workers in Iowa's meatpacking industry Archie Green Fellows Project, 2015-2016 (AFC 2015/026: 03383) Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. To honor the memory of Archie Green (1917-2009), a fellowship program was established at the American Folklife Center in 2010. Archie Green Fellowships support new research in the contemporary culture and traditions of American workers. In English and Burmese. n-us-ia Myint, Ma Aye, 1983- Interviews Refugees Burma Interviews Slaughtering and slaughter-houses Civil service Wages Employee rights Collective bargaining Education Employees Training of Factories Labor unions Blue collar workers Meat industry and trade Iowa Packing-house workers Iowa Interviews Marshalltown (Iowa) Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, DC USA 20540-4610 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.home http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc2015026.afc2015026_03383_sr01 (DLC) 2018655234 AFC 2015/026: 03383 2020655386 hdl:loc.afc/afc2015026.afc2015026_03383_sr01 dacs DLC 200615 20250607102215.0 21595113 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.8 using MARC21slim2MODS3-8_XSLT1-0.xsl (Revision 1.172 20230208) eng