Deaf Community: Work Schedules

Deaf Community: Work Schedules

In this video Sue Ayers explains how the variable schedule of work at a newspaper reinforced bonds between printers.

Zilvinas Paludnevicius

Drs. John S. and Betty J. Schuchman Deaf Documentary Center Collection

2022

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American Sign Language

A video featuring an ASL interview with Sue Ayers, an older white woman seated at home.

Sue Ayers: My days off were Monday and Tuesday, or Tuesday and Wednesday, or Wednesday and Thursday. So my social life amounted to zilch. Deaf community events happened on Friday and Saturday nights. But I was at work. So my social life was really with the people I worked with. If we had the same days off, like Wednesday and Thursday, we would get together and do something. Also, that meant I got to know a person from work but also outside of work as friends. They became like my sisters and brothers.

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