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
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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.
Arrangement
Series I. CORRESPONDENCE/ADMINISTRATIVE FILES
Series II. XEROX FILES
Series III. ITALY FILES
Series IV. ARTICLES AND BOOKS
Sub-Series A. Publications Sub-Series B. Misc. Writings
Series V. CLASS MATERIALS
Sub-Series A. Class Handouts Sub-Series B. Student Term Papers
Series VI. MISCELLANEOUS
Sub-Series A. Subject Files Sub-Series B. National Labor Relations Board Files Sub-Series C. Thomas W. Holland
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
- Aribtration, Industrial -- New York (State)
- Collective bargaining -- New York (State)
- College teachers.
- Grievance procedures -- New York (State)
- Grievance procedures -- Soviet Union
- Industrial arbitrators
- Industrial arbitrators -- New York (State)
- Industrial relations -- Italy
- Industrial relations -- New York (State)
- Industrial relations -- Soviet Union
- Industrial relations -- Study and teaching -- United States
- Industrial relations -- United States
- Italy -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
- Italy -- Politics and government -- 20th century
- Italy -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Labor discipline -- New York (State)
- Neufeld, Maurice F.
- 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
227 Ives Hall
Ithaca NY 14853