Women of Bethlehem Steel - Myrna Rivera

Annotation This is an interview with Myrna Rivera, a former employee of Bethlehem Steel. Myrna was born in Puerto Rico and grew up in Bethlehem, PA. She started working as a secretary while still in High School and went on to have a thirty-three-year career at Bethlehem Steel, in Human Resources and the Mining Department. Myrna describe the work environment and culture at Bethlehem Steel during times of both boom and decline. This interview was conducted by students in Professor Kim Carrell-Smith's History 303 course in the Fall semester of 2016. An oral history interview is an act of memory and hence both highly selective and highly subjective. While it accurately reflects what a narrator remembers (or chooses to tell) of his or her experience and viewpoints, it may not accurately represent what actually transpired or what another person may have experienced. As such, users should subject interviews to the same degree of critical scrutiny they would any other historical source.