{"id":3846,"date":"2012-02-16T18:53:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T18:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalheritage.org\/?p=3846"},"modified":"2023-06-20T13:20:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T13:20:53","slug":"mica-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/2012\/02\/16\/mica-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Mica Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/men-out-of-mica-mine-wheelb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6892\" src=\"http:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/men-out-of-mica-mine-wheelb.jpg\" alt=\"men out of mica mine wheelb\" width=\"569\" height=\"790\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/men-out-of-mica-mine-wheelb.jpg 569w, https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/men-out-of-mica-mine-wheelb-216x300.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 569px) 100vw, 569px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mica, also known as \u201cisinglass\u201d, is a mineral mined primarily in Western North Carolina for its unequaled heat resistant qualities.\u00a0 Men mostly prospected for and mined the mica while women processed it in mica houses.\u00a0 There they split the translucent material into thin sheets, sorted it into grades, and cut or punched it into disks, washers, and other shapes.\u00a0 A few men worked in the mica houses serving as machine operators, maintenance men, and supervisors.\u00a0 Young boys often assisted female workers, taking away the sorted and cut mica and collecting the waste generated by processing it.\u00a0 Mica workers were paid low wages and they suffered from various occupational hazards.\u00a0 By the early 1960s, solid state electronics greatly decreased the demand for mica, and most Appalachian mica mines shut down.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Multimedia:<\/h3>\n<h2>Below is the Digital Heritage Moment as broadcast on the radio:<\/h2>\n[audio:http:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Mica-Workers60Mx.mp3|titles=Mica Workers60Mx]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mica, also known as \u201cisinglass\u201d, is a mineral mined primarily in Western North Carolina for its unequaled heat resistant qualities.  Men mostly prospected for and mined the mica while women processed it in mica houses. . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,10],"tags":[361,364],"class_list":["post-3846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-economy","category-people","tag-mica","tag-mining"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8763,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3846\/revisions\/8763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}