American Association for Social Security Records
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Scope and Contents
Consists of Association correspondence with various individuals, societies and organizations, chiefly concerning unemployment insurance, federal social security, national health insurance, old age benefits, state laws and workmen's compensation. Also subject files which consist of published and unpublished materials having to do with health insurance, old age pensions, federal social security and unemployment relief; a card file of legislative histories of social security bills; a social legislation bibliography; copies of legislative bills; newspaper clippings which chiefly concern federal social security programs, social insurance, social security, and the Social Security Board; and miscellaneous related documents.
Dates
- 1909-1953
Language of Materials
Collection material in English, French, German
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 1927 by Abraham Epstein, the American Association for Social Security (formerly the American Association for Old Age Security) was dedicated to securing state and federal legislation to ensure adequate old age pensions, as well as unemployment and health insurance for American workers.
In 1927, Abraham Epstein organized the American Association for Old Age Security. The Association name was changed in 1933 to the American Association for Social Security and its goals and activities were widened to include unemployment insurance and health insurance.
Epstein was a reformer, editor, writer, scholar and public speaker, as well as the creative force behind the American Association for Social Security, which he directed for fifteen years as executive secretary. Old age pension legislation was the main objective of the Association.
The American Association for Social Security actively participated in the various state old age pension campaigns. For Epstein, this work with state programs was merely a means of bringing enough pressure to bear on Congress to secure federal legislation. The American Association for Social Security also sought reforms in the existing unemployment system and the enactment of a health insurance program.
Extent
90.5 cubic feet
Abstract
Materials concern the movement to promote government provision of retirement, health, unemployment and other forms of social insurance and progressive social legislation.
Quantity:
90.5 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Bibliographies, bills (legislative records), clippings (information artifacts), scrapbooks, publications (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 28, 2012
- EAD encoding:
- Randall Miles, October 19, 2016
- Depressions -- 1929 -- United States
- Depressions--1929--United States.
- Health insurance -- United States
- Lobbyists
- Merit rating -- United States
- New Deal, 1933-1939.
- New Deal, 1933-1939.
- Old age pensions -- United States
- Public welfare -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Social security -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Social security -- United States
- Social security--United States.
- Unemployment -- Law and legislation -- New York (State)
- Unemployment -- United States -- Effects on family
- Unemployment insurance -- Alabama
- Unemployment insurance -- Law and legislation -- California
- Unemployment insurance -- Law and legislation -- Connecticut
- Unemployment insurance -- Law and legislation -- Illinois
- Unemployment insurance -- Law and legislation -- Indiana
- Unemployment insurance -- Law and legislation -- Kentucky
- Unemployment insurance -- Law and legislation -- Maryland
- Unemployment insurance -- Law and legislation -- Massachusetts
- Unemployment insurance -- Law and legislation -- Michigan
- Unemployment insurance -- Law and legislation -- Missouri
- Unemployment insurance -- Law and legislation -- Nebraska
- Unemployment insurance -- Law and legislation -- New Hampshire
- Unemployment insurance -- Law and legislation -- New Jersey
- Unemployment insurance -- Law and legislation -- North Carolina
- Unemployment insurance -- Law and legislation -- Ohio
- Unemployment insurance -- Law and legislation -- Pennsylvania
- Unemployment insurance -- Law and legislation -- Rhode Island
- Unemployment insurance -- Law and legislation -- South Carolina
- Unemployment insurance -- Law and legislation -- Tennessee
- Unemployment insurance -- Law and legislation -- Wisconsin
- Unemployment insurance -- Oregon
- Unemployment insurance -- United States
- Veterans' benefits -- United States
- Workers' compensation--United States.
- Workers' compensation--United States.
- Title
- American Association for Social Security Records
- 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