Whyte, William Foote Additional Papers, 1923-1985
Collection Number: /4168
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
William Foote Whyte Additional Papers, 1923-1985
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
/4168
Creator:
Whyte, William Foote
Quanitities:
1 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
William Foote Whyte (June 27, 1914 July 16, 2000) was a sociologist chiefly known
for his ethnographic study in urban sociology, Street Corner Society.[1] A pioneer
in participant observation, he lived for four years in an Italian community in Boston
while a Junior Fellow at Harvard researching social relations of street gangs in Boston's
North End.
He joined the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell
University in 1948, remaining at Cornell for the remainder of his career.[1] At Cornell
he supervised Chris Argyris with his doctorate. He worked for social reform and social
change, directing his efforts toward "empowering the disenfranchized and narrowing
the gap between rich and poor." He studied industrial and agricultural workers and
workers' cooperatives in Venezuela, Peru, Guatemala and in the Basque region of Spain,
as well as in the United States. He authored hundreds of articles and 20 books including
an autobiography. He is considered a pioneer in industrial sociology.
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William Foote Whyte Additional Papers #/4168. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation
and Archives, Cornell University Library.
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Names:
Whyte, William Foote, 1914-2000
CONTAINER LIST
|
Container
|
Description
|
Date
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
"The Goal Book" 1931 School Yearbbok
|
1931 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Swarthmore College
|
1985 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Swarthmore Literary
|
1932 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Swarthmore - Criticisms (College Argumentation)
|
1936 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
WFW Writing Bronxville Press
|
1931 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
WFW Peru Letters
|
1964 |
| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
W.F Whyte's Grandfather
|
1925 |
| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Mother Letters
|
1973 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Letters from Harvard Folder [folder 1 of 2]
|
1936 |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Letters from Harvard Folder [folder 2 of 2]
|
1937-1940 |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Letters 1940s - 1950s
|
1940-1947 |
| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Letter's 1930s [folder 1 of 3]
|
1934-1937 |
| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Bill's Letters To: Grandparents Whyte, his Parents From: Camp, college, Jugeud Laudbeciu,
Sauatorium Baurustark
|
1923-1931 |
| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Personally Conducted 1932
|
1932 |
| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Letter's 1930s [folder 2 of 3]
|
1932-1936 |
| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Early Writing 1930's-1940's
|
1936 |
| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Letters 1930s [folder 3 of 3]
|
1936 |