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Maurice Neufeld Papers

 Collection
Identifier: /3007

Scope and Contents

Literary manuscripts, correspondence, class materials, subject files, case files, bibliographies, news releases, and newspaper clippings covering Neufeld's career as labor historian, consultant, and arbitrator.

Series I, Correspondence/Administrative files, spans the period 1947-1987 and includes correspondence, memos, committee notes, student examinations, term papers and other materials collected during Neufeld's long tenure as professor in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University. Among the most significant correspondents represented in this series are Val Lorwin and Philip Taft.

Series II, Xerox Corporation files, consists of materials relating to Neufeld's work as industrial relations advisor to the company, mostly in Rochester, N.Y. Subjects include contract negotiations, employee grievances, and discipline, and relations between the company and the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers' Union (ACTWU), which represented the employees.

Series III, Italy files, contains materials relating to Italian politics, culture, history, government, economic conditions and industrial relations.

Series IV, Publications, contains primarily of research materials, notes, and correspondence related to, as well as manuscripts of, Neufeld's published articles and books. Among the significant topics in this series is Neufeld's plan to study grievance procedures in the Soviet Union.

Series V, Class materials, includes bibiliographies, reading lists, class handouts, and student papers. Series VI, Miscellaneous, includes clippings, notes, manuscripts, articles, reports, and histories covering a number of individuals and topics.

Dates

  • 1903-1994

Language of Materials

Collection material in English, Italian

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

Professor Maurice Frank Neufeld (October 27, 1910 -April 10, 2003) was an American academic, author, union organizer and Army officer. In 1945, he was one of the two founding faculty members of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, appointed by its founding dean, Irving Ives.

Extent

64 cubic feet

Abstract

Literary manuscripts, correspondence, class materials, subject files, case files, bibliographies, news releases, and newspaper clippings covering Neufeld's career as labor historian, consultant, and arbitrator.

Quantity:

64 linear ft.

Forms of Material:

Papers (documents), correspondence, manuscripts (documents), notes, news clippings (information artifacts), memorandums, case files, bibliographies, examination (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, January 10, 2002
EAD encoding:
Randall Miles, January 14, 2016
Title
Neufeld, Maurice Papers
Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by Kheel Staff
Date
January 14, 2016
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

Contact:
227 Ives Hall
Ithaca NY 14853