Labor Schools for Women Workers Pamphlet Collection
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Scope and Contents
Materials regarding the American Labor Education Service (ALES) include pamphlets, reports and notes on government support of workers' education programs, labor plays, music, women workers, unions and workers' education, workweek and wages, and activities of student workers. Also reading lists and bibliographies; brochures and pamphlets on courses and curricula offered at the various affiliated schools; an ALES scrapbook; and letters of the ALES staff to various unions and philanthropic organizations pertaining to finances and recruitment of staff and students (1928-1937).
Also materials regarding the Works Progress Administration's Pittsburgh workers' education project. These include minutes of the Workers Education Advisory Committee; memoranda, reports and letters on the training institute, communist instructors and administrators of the project, housing, curricula, fundraising, and union cooperation (1938-1940).
Additional materials include brochures, pamphlets, yearbooks and routine correspondence regarding the Bryn Mawr School, Hudson Shore Labor School and the Southern School for Workers.
Dates
- 1924-1945
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Conditions Governing Access
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference archivist for access to these materials.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.
Biographical / Historical
Maxine L. Aaron collected these documents in the course of her service on the Pittsburgh committees of the Bryn Mawr Summer School, the Affiliated Summer Schools for Workers, and the Hudson Shore Labor School. She was also active on the Workers Education Advisory Committee of the Works Progress Administration's Pittsburgh workers education project.
Extent
0.5 cubic feet
Abstract
Consist chiefly of correspondence and reports generated by the various workers' education schools of the Affiliated Summer Schoools for Workers. Materials generally pertain to the conduct of courses, fundraising and cooperative activities of the summer schools and the American Labor Education Service.
Quantity:
0.5 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Pamphlets, publications.
General
- Contact Information:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives Martin P. Catherwood Library 227 Ives Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183> kheel_center@cornell.edu http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheel-center
- Compiled by:
- Kheel Staff, July 14, 2014
- EAD encoding:
- Kheel Staff, April 10, 2015
- Title
- Labor Schools for Women Workers Pamphlet Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Kheel Staff
- Date
- April 10, 2015
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
Repository Details
Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository
227 Ives Hall
Ithaca NY 14853