Interview: Dennis Clark (2nd interview)

Interview: Dennis Clark (2nd interview)

Dennis Clark (1927-1993) grew up in the Kensington neighborhood in north Philadelphia during the Great Depression. A glazer by profession, Clark's father could rarely find employment during the 1930s, so the family struggled to afford rent or food and moved from one row house to the next to avoid the rent collector. Clark went on to get his doctorate in history at Temple University and to write histories of the Irish in Philadelphia. In his two 1982 interviews, Clark shared memories of his childhood in an Irish community and a history of Kensington's shops and mills.

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Charles Hardy

Dennis Clark

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Kensington (Philadelphia neighborhood)

Labor disputes

Labor movement

Labor unions

Textile mills

Working conditions

Health

Recreation

Women--Employment.

Child labor.

Childhood

Crime.

Dominic Consolo