Cook, Alice, Biographical Reminiscences Audio-Visual Materials, 1983-2003
Collection Number: /3012av
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Alice Cook Biographical Reminiscences Audio-Visual Materials, 1983-2003
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
/3012av
Abstract:
Audio recordings of Alice Cook's biographical reminiscences
Creator:
Cook, Alice
Quanitities:
5.67 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
Alice Hanson Cook (1903 - 1998) devoted her life to helping working people, and especially
working women, on four continents. What she herself called her "patchwork career"
included social work, adult education, labor organizing, a tour of foreign service
at the end of World War II, twenty years teaching in Cornell's School of Industrial
and Labor Relations, and authoring numerous books and articles. She was a pioneer
in bringing attention to issues such as comparable worth, maternity leave, and pay
equity, known for both her scholarly writings and her activism on the experiences
of working women around the world.
Alice attended Northwestern University's School of Speech from 1920-1924, gaining
her only formal degree. (She would later receive a number of honorary doctorates,
including one from Northwestern.) While enrolled at Northwestern, Alice began her
studies of both economics and social work, as well as beginning her lifelong attachment
to the ideals of socialism. Early employment with the YWCA's Industrial Department
in the 1920s led her to find ways to use the Y for both union support efforts and
attempts to organize women workers previously ignored by unions, such as domestic
servants. These early efforts with the Y led to Alice's involvement with adult labor
education efforts such as the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers, Arkansas'
Commonwealth College, the Southern Summer School for Workers in North Carolina, and
the Hudson Shore School. They also led to her first direct employment by the union
movement, as she worked for the early CIO's Textile Workers' Organizing Committee.
The 1930s and 40s also mark the beginning of Alice's interests in similar developments
around the world. From 1929 to 1931, she studied in Germany under a DAAD (Deutscher
Akademischer Austauschdienst) fellowship, beginning her long association with the
German system of adult and labor education. She would return to Germany after World
War II, when she became the chief of adult education in Germany's American Zone for
the Education Division of the High Commission, Germany. Her travels through Germany
at this time combined with her own personal experiences led her to become intrigued
with questions of comparative systems of labor education. She would ultimately travel
throughout both Western and Eastern Europe as well as Asia in order to carry out her
research.
Alice's academic career began in 1952, when she was hired by the New York State School
of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. She began
as a researcher in the School's extension division, but moved into a full academic
teaching position in 1955. She served as a well-respected teacher in the School up
to her retirement in 1972.
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Alice Cook Biographical Reminiscences Audio-Visual Materials #/3012av. Kheel Center
for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Related Collections: /3012: Alice Cook Papers /4118mb: ILR School Alumni Memorabilia /4238p: Alice H. Cook Memorial Celebration Photo Display /4209p: Alice H. Cook Memorial Service Photographs /4270: Francine Herman collection of Alice H. Cook Memorial Celebration files /4282: ILR School Alice Cook 100th Birthday Conference Records 5930mf: Morris L. Cooke "Industrial Management" Monograph on Microfilm
Names:
Cook, Alice Hanson
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 |
#1
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| Box 1 |
Prof. Cook's reminiscences while at "Longhouse", no.1
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Scope and Contents
Recorded sometime from 1975-1981.
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| Box 2 |
#2
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| Box 2 |
Prof. Cook's reminiscences while at "Longhouse", no.2
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Scope and Contents
Recorded sometime from 1975-1981.
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| Box 3 |
#3
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| Box 3 |
Prof. Cook's reminiscences while at "Longhouse", no.3
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Scope and Contents
Recorded sometime from 1975-1981.
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| Box 4 |
#4
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| Box 4 |
Prof. Cook's reminiscences while at "Longhouse", no.4
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Scope and Contents
Recorded sometime from 1975-1981.
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| Box 5 |
#5
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| Box 5 |
Prof. Cook's reminiscences while at "Longhouse", no.5
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Scope and Contents
Recorded sometime from 1975-1981.
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| Box 6 |
#6
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| Box 6 |
Prof. Cook's reminiscences while at "Longhouse", no.6
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Scope and Contents
Recorded sometime from 1975-1981.
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| Box 7 |
#7
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| Box 7 |
Prof. Cook's reminiscences while at "Longhouse", no.7
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Scope and Contents
Recorded sometime from 1975-1981.
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| Box 8 |
A. Cook's 80th Birthday Party
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| Box 8 |
Party for A. Cook's 80th birthday party
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1983 | |
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Scope and Contents
November 28, 1983.
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| Box 9.1 |
11/4/1987 c.1
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| Box 9.1 |
11/4/1987
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1987 | |
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Scope and Contents
Copy 1
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| Box 9.2 |
11/4/1987 c.2
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| Box 9.2 |
11/4/1987
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1987 | |
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Scope and Contents
Copy 2
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| Box 10 |
Australia:1 (11/17)
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Scope and Contents
1. Needham 2. Ardie 3. Working Mothers 4. Labor Department Perth
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| Box 11 |
Japan: Tape VIB (9/26)
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Scope and Contents
16. Hongo continued 17. Nakazawa 18. Sato 19. Watanabe 20. Yoshida and Kenbara
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| Box 12 |
Australia:3 (11/28)
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Scope and Contents
12. Women's Electoral Lobby continued 13. Salmon 14. Women in steel plant 15. Dept.
of Labor Adelaide 16. Women's Meeting
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| Box 13 |
Australia:4 (11/29)
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Scope and Contents
17. Swinson Popel 18. Levi Strauss 19. Clarke's Shoes 20. Group Laundry 21. Adams
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| Box 14 |
Australia:5 (12/4)
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Scope and Contents
21. Adams continued 22. Trades and Labor Council 23. Employers' Association 24. Eaton
25. Committee on Sex Discrimination 26. Community Welfare
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| Box 15 |
Australia:6 (12/7)
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Scope and Contents
27. Further Education; Cunningham; Migrant Hostel 28. Gully 29. Lyne Browne 30. Commonwealth
Dept. of Labor
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| Box 16 |
Australia:7 (12/10)
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Scope and Contents
30. Commonwealth Dept. of Labor 31. Nylex Corp. 32. Davenport 33. Brotherhood of St.
Lawrence 34. Brickmakers Union 35. Telephone Union
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| Box 17 |
Australia:8 (12/14)
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Scope and Contents
35. Telephone Operators continued 36. WEL Mahlab v. Richmond 37. State Department
of Labor and Industry 38. Ericson's 39. Fords 40. Rowntree 41. ACTU 42. Coleman and
WEL
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| Box 18 |
Australia:9 (12/24)
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Scope and Contents
42. Coleman continued 43. E. Reud 44. Carl Wellesley 45. Burroughs-Welcome 46. Kearney;
notes on Kunugra from Repol
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| Box 19 |
Australia:10 (12/24)
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Scope and Contents
49. Anthony Squires 50. Nurseries 51. ACTU Women
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| Box 20 |
Australia:11 (12/26)
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Scope and Contents
49. ACTU continued 50. Malley's 51. Women's Organizations 52. V. Smith 53. Fry
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| Box 21 |
Australia:12 (12/26)
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Scope and Contents
54. V. Read and Letter 55. Justice Evatt 56. Summary of Debriefing
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| Box 22 |
Japan:37
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Scope and Contents
1. Nakanishi 2. Suzuki 3. Vocational Training
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| Box 23 |
Japan:39
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Scope and Contents
4. Takeshima 5. Yamamoto 6. Kageyama
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| Box 24 |
Japan:40
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Scope and Contents
7. Vocational School 8. Tada 9. Izunoi 10. Isetou
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| Box 25 |
Japan (9/21)
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Scope and Contents
11. Kafore 12. Ichibongase 13. Hayashi
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| Box 26 |
Japan: AC Nite VI A (9/22)
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Scope and Contents
13. Hayashi continued 14. Takahasi 15. Tanaka 16. Hongo
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| Box 27 |
Japan: Tape VII
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Scope and Contents
20. Yoshida Lab Office continued 21. Child Care Center 22. Tokyo Women's Office
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| Box 28 |
Japan: Tape AC VIII-A
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Scope and Contents
22. Tokyo Women's Division continued 23. Hayashi Interview 24. Hoikuen Interview 25.
Hayashi continued 26. Public Officials 27. Housing Project Center
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| Box 29 |
Japan: Tape X
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Scope and Contents
30. Hanami 31. Kamisawa 14. Takahashi continued 32. Tax Office
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| Box 30 |
Japan: Tape XI
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Scope and Contents
32. Tax Office continued 32. Sato 33. Zentei 34. Seki, Nikkerei
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| Box 31 |
Japan: Tape XII
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Scope and Contents
34. Seki continued 35. Jichiro 36. Zenichijuro 37. Zendentsu
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| Box 32 |
Japan: Tape XIII
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Scope and Contents
37. Zendentsu continued 38. Yamazaki 39. Nurses Association 40. Keio Case
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| Box 33 |
Japan: XIV
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Scope and Contents
40. Keio Case continued 41. Akamatsu-Tanami 42. Nurses
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| Box 34 |
Japan: Tape XV
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Scope and Contents
42. Nurses continued 43. Kashiwabara 44. Hamawi 45. Nuita 46. Takahashi
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| Box 35 |
Japan: Tape XVI
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Scope and Contents
47. Nakamoto 48. Nagoya 49. Mayuma
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| Box 36 |
Japan: XVII
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Scope and Contents
49. Mayuma continued 50. Vocation officers 51. Ohwaki and Nagoya 52. Nagoya Meeting
53. Asano Maru
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| Box 37 |
Japan: XVIII (10/27)
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Scope and Contents
54. Vocational School 55. Mistsumi Co. 56. Women's Club 57. Tizuka City 58. Abe
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| Box 38 |
Japan: Tape XIX
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Scope and Contents
58. Abe continued 59. Ata 60. Hebe, More 61. Iwataya 62. Noguchi
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| Box 39 |
Japan: Tape XX
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Scope and Contents
62. Noguchi continued 63. Masuko 64. Sohyo 65. Rodo Kyokai 66. Tanaka 67. Shimazu
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| Box 40 |
Japan: Tape XXI
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Scope and Contents
67. Shimazu continued 68. Tomiyama and Mikake 69. Kageyama 70. Training Directors
71. ILO Association
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| Box 41 |
Unlabeled: Tape I (9/22)
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Scope and Contents
Vogel tapes
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| Box 42 |
Unlabeled: Tape II
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Scope and Contents
Vogel Tapes, Jan Ting
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| Box 43 |
Unlabeled: Tape VII
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| Box 44 |
Unlabeled: Tape VIIIB
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| Box 45 |
Unlabeled: Tape IX
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| Box 46 |
Unlabeled: Tape XI
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| Box 47 |
Unlabeled: Tape XII
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| Box 48 |
Unlabeled: Tape XIII
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Scope and Contents
Parish Notes
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| Box 49 |
Austraila:2 (11/28)
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Scope and Contents
5. Employers' Federation 6. Miscellaneous 7. Barney and Blanchard 8. Alan Jones 9.
Bruce Buche 10. Callandar et al. 11. Latter T&LC Perth 12. Women's Electoral Lobby
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| Box 50 |
A. cook, Cassette of Broadcast - Germany: TU-General -- 25.Nov.78
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1978 | |