American Association for Labor Legislation Records on Microfilm
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Scope and Contents
Records consist of correspondence, committee minutes, reports, financial records and research documents generated by staff members to facilitate legislative programs. These research materials deal with the following subjects: general labor law, general social insurance, health insurance, occupational safety, diseases and accidents, labor law administration, pensions and old age benefits, unemployment, wages, hours of work, working conditions, workers' compensation and unionism.
Dates
- 1905- 1945
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
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This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.
Biographical / Historical
The American Association for Labor Legislation was formed to promote uniformity of labor legislation and to encourage the study of labor conditions with a view toward promoting desirable legislation.
The Association was founded as a branch of the International Association for Labor Legislation. Preliminary discussions about forming the group occurred during 1905 and culminated in the first meeting of the Association held on February 15, 1906, in New York City.
During the Association's first few years, three basic objectives were established: to serve as the American branch of the International Association for Labor Legislation; to promote uniformity of labor legislation in the United States; and to encourage the study of labor conditions with a view toward promoting desirable labor legislation.
John Bertram Andrews was appointed executive secretary in 1909. His wife, Irene Osgood Andrews, eventually became associate secretary. John Andrews, as lobbyist, lecturer, author and editor of the publication THE AMERICAN LABOR LEGISLATION REVIEW, became the motivating force of the Association. Broadly speaking, the American Association for Labor Legislation set the following goals: the alleviation of adverse working conditions; the creation of laws to protect safety and health on the job; and the provision of compensation in times of unemployment and benefits for workers no longer able to participate in the labor force. To facilitate the implementation of the Association's interests, study groups were established to investigate labor conditions. Active lobbying was undertaken in support of protective labor legislation in state and federal legislatures, and critiques were published concerning pending bills. The lifetime of the Association roughly corresponded to Andrew's lifetime; its activities ceased after his death in 1943.
Extent
7.89 cubic feet
Abstract
Records consist of correspondence, committee minutes, reports, financial records and research documents generated by staff members to facilitate legislative programs. These research materials deal with the following subjects: general labor law, general social insurance, health insurance, occupational safety, diseases and accidents, labor law administration, pensions and old age benefits, unemployment, wages, hours of work, working conditions, workers' compensation and unionism.
Quantity:
71 microfilm reels
Forms of Material:
Microfilm, broadsides (notices).
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, September 26, 2012
- EAD encoding:
- Randall Miles, October 19, 2016
- American Economic Association
- American Federation of Teachers
- Anthrax
- Child labor -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Children -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Coal mining industry -- Safety regulations -- United States
- Compressed air industry -- United States -- State supervision
- Depressions -- 1929 -- United States
- Disability insurance -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Employment agencies -- United States -- State supervision
- Foreign workers -- Insurance -- United States
- Health insurance -- Law and legislation -- Germany
- Health insurance -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain
- Health insurance -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Health insurance -- United States
- Hours of labor -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Hours of labor -- United States
- Industrial accidents -- United States
- Industrial hygiene -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Industrial relations -- United States -- State supervision
- Industrial safety -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Industrial safety -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Industrial safety -- United States
- International Labour Office
- Interstate commerce -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Iron industry -- United States -- Taxation
- Kennedy, Thomas
- Kern Bill
- Labor laws and legislation -- United States
- Laboratory technicians -- Licenses -- United States
- Lead industry workers -- United States -- Diseases and hygiene
- Lead poisoning
- Life insurance -- United States
- Lobbyists
- Lungs -- Dust diseases -- Prevention
- Management -- Employee participation -- United States
- Martin, John
- Match industry workers -- United States -- Diseases and hygiene
- Migrant labor -- United States -- Insurance
- Mine inspection -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Mine inspection -- United States -- State supervision
- Mine safety -- Law and legislation -- United States
- National health insurance -- United States
- New Deal, 1933-1939.
- New York (State). Department of Labor
- Occupational diseases
- Occupational diseases -- United States
- Old age assistance -- United States -- State supervision
- Pensions -- Agriculture -- United States
- Pensions -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Pensions -- United States
- Phosphorus -- Toxicology
- Public welfare -- California -- State supervision
- Public welfare -- New York (State) -- State supervision
- Public welfare -- Pennsylvania -- State supervision
- Public welfare -- United States
- Public works -- United States
- Radiation injuries
- Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979
- Silicosis
- Social legislation -- United States -- Bibliography
- Social security -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Social security -- United States
- Steel industry and trade -- Taxation -- United States
- Strikes and lockouts -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Unemployment -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Unemployment -- United States
- Unemployment insurance -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Unemployment insurance -- New York (State)
- Unemployment insurance -- Wisconsin
- Union labels -- United States
- United States -- Economic policy -- 1933-1945
- United States -- Economic policy -- To 1933
- United States -- Emigration and immigration
- Vocational rehabilitation -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Wages -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Wages -- Minimum wage -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Wages -- Minimum wage -- United States
- Wages -- Women -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Walsh-Healy Bill.
- Women -- Employment -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Workers' compensation -- Civil service -- United States
- Workers' compensation -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Workers' compensation -- Merchant marine -- United States
- Workers' compensation -- Railroads -- United States
- Workers' compensation -- Stevedores -- United States
- Workers' compensation -- United States
- Working class -- Medical examinations -- United States
- Working conditions -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Working conditions -- United States
- Title
- American Association for Labor Legislation Records on Microfilm
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Kheel Staff
- Date
- October 19, 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