Hudson Shore Labor School Documents
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Scope and Contents
Documents consist of memoranda and notes pertaining to workshops, training, budgets, curricula, faculty, labor history and workers' education; minutes and agenda of meetings of the faculty and Board of Trustees (1949-1951); annual reports of the Board of Trustees; reports and statements of the Rutgers Institute of Management and Industrial Relations regarding the curricula and programs offered at the HSLS; and faculty evaluations of training programs (1948-1951).
Also correspondence of L.H. Kerrison (Rutgers Institute of Management and Industrial Relations, faculty) with Helen D. Lockwood (HSLS trustee) on transferring HSLS workers' education sessions to Rutgers and of James C. Hill (Sarah Lawrence College, faculty) with Hilda W. Smith (HSLS trustee) on meetings and curricula. Additionally, press releases, bulletins, financial statements and pamphlets generated by and pertaining to the school's programs.
Dates
- 1947-1955
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
Founded in 1939 as the Bryn Mawr College Summer School for Women Workers in Industry, the Hudson Shore Labor School (HSLS) moved to its West Park, N.Y. location in 1949, expanding into an institute for training and development for workers and unionists.
Extent
0.5 cubic feet
Abstract
Consists primarily of memoranda and reports concerning the school's establishment and curricula in workers' education.
Quantity:
0.5 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Records (documents) .
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 15, 2005
- EAD encoding:
- Kheel Staff, March 20, 2019
- Title
- Hudson Shore Labor School Documents
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Kheel Staff
- Date
- March 20, 2019
- 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