Scope and Contents
Key to abbrevations in the papers:
OCB - The Office of Collective Bargaining
UFT - United Federation of Teachers
AFSCME - Ameriacn Federaton of State and Municipal Employees
PERB - Public Employment Relations Board
ACWA - Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
IAM - International Association of Machinists
I.U.D. Industrial Union Department, AFL-CIO
IUE - International Unino of Electric, Radio, and Machine Workers
SIU - Seafarer's International Union
SSEU - Social Services Employee Union
JLC - Joint Legislation Committee
SCHR - State Commission for Human Rights (commonly references NYS)
CCR - US Commission of Civil Rights
FEP - Fair Employment Practices
EEOC: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
PPA- Public Personnel Administration
OFCC - Office of Federal Contract Compliance
EEO - Equal Employment Opportunity
IBEW - International Brotherhood of Elcectrical Workers
I.C.F.T.U. - International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
Dates
- 1965-1969
Creator
- Polisar, Eric (creator, Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
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
Eric Polisar (June 29, 1923 July 31, 1968) was a member of the faculty at Cornell University's New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
A graduate of the University of Wisconsin (BA, 1949; MA, 1950), Polisar taught at the New York State Teachers College at New Paltz before joining the Extension Division of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations in 1952. From 1953 to 1961, he worked on the staff of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. He returned to the Cornell faculty in 1961 and remained on the faculty until his death in 1968.
See the Cornell University Memorial Faculty Statement for Professor Eric Polisar: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/18855
Extent
23 cubic feet
Abstract
Professor Polisar's papers mostly concerning Civil Rights, public employment, and workplace discrimination. Also includes materials for the ILR courses he taught.
Quantity:
23 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Papers (documents).
General
- Contact Information:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives 227 Ives Hall Tower Road Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183 kheelref@cornell.edu https://catherwood.library.cornell.edu/kheel/
- Compiled by:
- Kheel Staff, February 02, 2013
- EAD encoding:
- Elizabeth Parker, May 08, 2023
- Title
- Polisar, Eric Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Kheel Staff
- Date
- May 08, 2023
- 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