Article featuring selections of oral history interviews conducted with Rhode Island working people in the 1980s. Reflections on childhood in urban, industrial Rhode Island in the wake of industrial closures, changing demographic landscapes, and their impact on the state's collective identity. Stories of mill work in Pawtucket, the Narragansett Brewery, labor negotiations, the women's movement, and other social reform movements in Rhode Island in the 1960s and 1970s. Featured in Part Two of a Rhode Island History series entitled, "Working Lives: An Oral History of Rhode Island Labor."