Guide to the E. Wight Bakke Papers,
1932-1971

Collection Number: 5522

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library

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Compiled by:
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Date completed:
2000
EAD encoding:
Casey S. Westerman, June 27, 2002

© 2002 Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
E. Wight Bakke papers, 1932-1971.
Collection Number:
5522
Creator:
Bakke, E. Wight (Edward Wight), 1903-
Quantity:
55 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, subject files, note cards, lecture notes, and publications.
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Correspondence, subject files, note cards, lecture notes, and publications of economist E. Wight Bakke.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

E. Wight Bakke was born in Onawa, Iowa, to Harriet Frances (Wight) and Oscar Christian Bakke, a shoe merchant in Onawa. Bakke attended Northwestern University where he received a BA in Philosophy in 1926. He continued in the Yale Divinity School from 1926 to 1929 and during that time was also a pastor of the Park Methodist Episcopal Church. His graduate study in social sciences was also conducted at Yale University, and from 1931-1932 he was the Sterling Fellow at Yale, receiving his Ph.D. in 1932. In 1964 he received an honorary LL. D. from Northwestern University.
Bakke taught sociology at Yale from 1932-1934, and was an assistant professor of economics from 1934-1938. He served the Institute of Human Relations as Director of Unemployment Studies from 1934-1939, and was promoted to Professor of Economics in 1938 and appointed the Sterling Professor of Economics in 1940. Bakke was the Director of Graduate Studies in Economics at Yale from 1940-1950. From 1944 until the late 1950's he directed Yale's Labor and Management Center. The Center was devised with a nine-member policy committee made up of three representatives of Yale, three from labor, and three from management to develop a balanced approach and avoid an "ivory tower" view of labor relations.
Bakke was often called upon to advise governmental commissions and scholarly organizations on labor and management issues. He was Fulbright professor in Denmark in 1953, the principal consulting social economist for the Social Security Board from 1936-1939, and a consultant to the Department of Labor, Navy Department. He directed the National Bureau of Economic Research, and was the Chairman of the Appeals Committee of the National War Labor Board. He was a member of several Presidential Emergency Boards and the National Manpower Policy Task Force.
E. Wight Bakke died on November 23, 1971.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Bakke, E. Wight
Bakke, E. Wight (Edward Wight) ,1903-
Yale University--Faculty.
Yale University Labor and Management Center.

Subjects:
Industrial relations--Study and teaching--United States.
Industrial management--Study and teaching--United States.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

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COLLECTION ARRANGEMENT

Correspondence files are arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent. Publications are arranged alphabetically by title. Subject files are arranged alphabetically by subject. Research files are arranged chronologically by date of study. Committee files are arranged alphabetically by name of committee.
RELATED MATERIAL

5960. E. Wight Bakke papers, 1929-1971 [bulk 1945-1970].
SERIES LIST

Series I. Correspondence. Boxes 1-4
Series II. Publications. Boxes 5-13
Series III. Subject files. Boxes 14-16
Series IV. Research files.
A. SNETCO study, 1948.
 Boxes 16-32
B. Bank study.
 Boxes 32-33
C. Thomas Industry study, 1960.
 Box 33
D. Occupational Revolution in Japan, 1967.
 Box 34
E. National Manpower Policy Task Force, 1971.
 Boxes 35-36
Series V. Professional committees. Boxes 37-38
Series VI. Yale University course material. Boxes 40-45.
Series VII. Research notes. Boxes 46-54

Description
Container
Series I. Correspondence.
A - Al
Box 1 Folder 1
Am -
Box 1 Folder 2
American Association for Social Security, 1942-1947
Box 1 Folder 3
American Association for Social Security, 1941
Box 1 Folder 4
American Association for Social Security, 1939-1940
Box 1 Folder 5
American Association for Social Security, 1937-1938
Box 1 Folder 6
Am -
Box 1 Folder 7
American Labor Conference on International Affairs
Box 1 Folder 8
American Management Association to American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Box 1 Folder 9
An -
Box 1 Folder 10
Argyris, Chris
Box 1 Folder 11
Ar - Ay
Box 1 Folder 12
Ba -
Box 1 Folder 13
Bakke (relatives)
Box 1 Folder 14
Ba -
Box 1 Folder 15
Bartos, Otomar
Box 1 Folder 16
Bc
Box 1 Folder 17
Black, Robert (The White Motor Co.)
Box 1 Folder 18
Bl - Bo
Box 1 Folder 19
Br - Bu
Box 1 Folder 20
Ca
Box 1 Folder 21
Ce - Ch
Box 1 Folder 22
Ch
Box 1 Folder 23
Ch - Co
Box 1 Folder 24
Co -
Box 1 Folder 25
Co
Box 1 Folder 26
Confidential, A - L
Box 1 Folder 27
Confidential, M - Y
Box 1 Folder 28
Copyright Office
Box 1 Folder 29
Cornell University, 1965-1971 (See - Report on Planning Committee in Subject file)
Box 1 Folder 30
Cornell University, 1940-1964
Box 1 Folder 31
Co
Box 1 Folder 32
Cr - Cu
Box 1 Folder 33
"Crank Letters"
Box 1 Folder 34
Da
Box 1 Folder 35-37
De - Di
Box 1 Folder 38
Do
Box 1 Folder 39-40
Du
Box 1 Folder 41
E
Box 1 Folder 42
Fa - Fi
Box 1 Folder 43
Fi - Fl
Box 1 Folder 44
Ford Foundation (Study of Employment Service in U.S.) 1962-1966
Box 1 Folder 45
Ford Foundation, 1951-1961
Box 1 Folder 46
Ford Motor Company
Box 1 Folder 47
Foreign Operations Administration (European Productivity Agency) 1953-1954
Box 1 Folder 48
Foreign Operations Administration (EPA), 1954-55
Box 1 Folder 49
Foreign Operations Administration Norway 1955 Project
Box 1 Folder 50
Fo
Box 2 Folder 1
Foundation for Research on Human Behavior
Box 2 Folder 2-3
Fr - Fulbright Grant (Denmark)
Box 2 Folder 4
Fu
Box 2 Folder 5
Ga - Gl
Box 2 Folder 6
Golden, Clint
Box 2 Folder 7
Go - Gr
Box 2 Folder 8
Gr - Gu
Box 2 Folder 9
Ha
Box 2 Folder 10
Harvard College, 1940-1969
Box 2 Folder 11
Harvard College, 1935-1937
Box 2 Folder 12
Ha - Haverford College
Box 2 Folder 13
Ha - He
Box 2 Folder 14
He - Hi
Box 2 Folder 15
Hiton, John (England), 1932-1939
Box 2 Folder 16
Ho - Hu
Box 2 Folder 17
Ib - In
Box 2 Folder 18
Industrial Relations Research Association, 1957-1967
Box 2 Folder 19
Industrial Relations Research Association, 1957-1951
Box 2 Folder 20
Industrial Relations Research Association, 1949-1950
Box 2 Folder 21
In - Institute of Human Relations (see Bakke publications)
Box 2 Folder 22
In - Iv
Box 2 Folder 23
Ja - Jangard, Rolf
Box 2 Folder 24
Japan Correspondence
Box 2 Folder 25
Jo - Ju
Box 2 Folder 26
Ka - Ke
Box 2 Folder 27
Keller - Ke
Box 2 Folder 28
Kerr, Clark
Box 2 Folder 29
Ke - Ku
Box 2 Folder 30
Labor and Management Center, Advisory Council and General
Box 2 Folder 31
Labor and Management Center - Gifts
Box 2 Folder 32
Labor and Management Center, Personal and Financial
Box 2 Folder 33
Labor and Management Center, Policy Committee Members
Box 2 Folder 34
Labor and Management Center, Union Campaign Acknowledgement
Box 2 Folder 35
Labor and Management Center, Union Gifts
Box 2 Folder 36
Labor Education Service
Box 2 Folder 37
Labor Management to "Laboratories"
Box 2 Folder 38
La - Le
Box 2 Folder 39
Li - Lu
Box 2 Folder 40
Lucius and Eva Eastman Fund
Box 2 Folder 41
Lu - Ly
Box 2 Folder 42
Ma
Box 2 Folder 43-44
Maurice and Laura Falk Foundation
Box 2 Folder 45
Ma - Mc
Box 2 Folder 46
Me
Box 2 Folder 47
Mi - Mo
Box 2 Folder 48
Mu
Box 2 Folder 49
My and Miscellaneous (M)
Box 2 Folder 50
National Association of Manufacturers
Box 3 Folder 1
Na - National Bureau of Economic Research
Box 3 Folder 2
Na -
Box 3 Folder 3
National Planning Association
Box 3 Folder 4
National Policy Committee - Na
Box 3 Folder 5
National War Labor Board, 1944-1945
Box 3 Folder 6
National War Labor Board, 1942-1943
Box 3 Folder 7
Ne
Box 3 Folder 8
Ni - No
Box 3 Folder 9
Norway
Box 3 Folder 10
Norway Distribution Correspondence
Box 3 Folder 11
Norwegian ("Hands Across the Sea"), 1960-1961
Box 3 Folder 12
Norwegian, 1956-1959
Box 3 Folder 13
Norwegian, 1955
Box 3 Folder 14
Norway, 1955 - Nu
Box 3 Folder 15
Ob - Oh
Box 3 Folder 16
Ol - Ox
Box 3 Folder 17
Pa - Pe
Box 3 Folder 18
Pensions for Nonprofessional Employees
Box 3 Folder 19
Pe
Box 3 Folder 20
Ph - Pi
Box 3 Folder 21
Pl - Pr
Box 3 Folder 22
Princeton University
Box 3 Folder 23
Pu - Publishers' Correspondence, 1968-1969
Box 3 Folder 24
Publishers' Correspondence, 1967
Box 3 Folder 25
Publishers' Correspondence, 1966
Box 3 Folder 26
Publishers' Correspondence, 1965
Box 3 Folder 27
Publishers' Correspondence, 1963-1964
Box 3 Folder 28
Publishers' Correspondence, 1956-1926
Box 3 Folder 29
Publishers' Correspondence, 1939-1949
Box 3 Folder 30
Publishers' Correspondence, 1932-1938
Box 3 Folder 31
Quinnipiac College (Jr. College of Commerce), 1959-1970
Box 3 Folder 32
Quinnipiac College (Jr. College of Commerce), 1946-1956
Box 3 Folder 33
Ra - Recommendations
Box 3 Folder 34
Re - Rehn-O.E.C.D.
Box 3 Folder 35
Religious Society of Friends (Friends Association), 1939
Box 3 Folder 36
Religious Society of Friends (American Friends Service Committee), 1940
Box 3 Folder 37
Religious Society of Friends (American Friends Service Committee), Treasury, 1941
Box 3 Folder 38
Religious Society of Friends (American Friends Service Committee), Treasurer, 1942
Box 3 Folder 39
Religious Society of Friends (Connecticut Valley Friends), 1943-1945
Box 3 Folder 40
Religious Society of Friends (New Haven Monthly Meeting), 1946-1948
Box 3 Folder 41
Religious Society of Friends (New Haven Meeting), 1949
Box 3 Folder 42
Religious Society of Friends (New Haven Monthly Meeting), 1950
Box 3 Folder 43
Religious Society of Friends (Friends Service Committee - Workshops), 1951
Box 3 Folder 44
Religious Society of Friends, 1952-1969
Box 3 Folder 45
Re - Reynolds
Box 4 Folder 1
Rh - Riccardi
Box 4 Folder 2
Ri - Robbins
Box 4 Folder 3
Ro
Box 4 Folder 4
Rockefeller Foundation - Ro
Box 4 Folder 5
Rotival, Maurice - Ru
Box 4 Folder 6
Rudge (Fred) Associates, Inc., 1957-1961
Box 4 Folder 7
Rudge (Fred) Associates, Inc., 1954-1956
Box 4 Folder 8
Rudge (Fred) Associates, Inc., 1953-1954
Box 4 Folder 9
Ru
Box 4 Folder 10
Sa - Scandinavian Correspondence
Box 4 Folder 11
Sc - Se
Box 4 Folder 12
Seymore, Charles
Box 4 Folder 13
Si - Sh
Box 4 Folder 14
Sk - Sm
Box 4 Folder 15
Social Science Research Council
Box 4 Folder 16
Social Security Board
Box 4 Folder 17
So - Socony-Vacuum Oil Company
Box 4 Folder 18
So - Sp
Box 4 Folder 19
St - Sy
Box 4 Folder 20
Ta - Tr
Box 4 Folder 21
Twentieth Century Fund
Box 4 Folder 22
UAW - Unemployment
Box 4 Folder 23
Unions, Management and the Public
Box 4 Folder 24
United Rubber to United States
Box 4 Folder 25
United States Department of Labor
Box 4 Folder 26
United States G - University College of West Indies
Box 4 Folder 27
University of Akron to University of Colorado
Box 4 Folder 28
University of Connecticut to University of Kent
Box 4 Folder 29
University of Maryland to University of Michigan
Box 4 Folder 30
University of Minnesota to University of Rhode Island
Box 4 Folder 31
University of San Francisco to University of Wisconsin
Box 4 Folder 32
Upjohn Institute to Uyeno, Ichiro
Box 4 Folder 33
V - Wa
Box 4 Folder 34
Wa
Box 4 Folder 35
We - Wh
Box 4 Folder 36
Wi
Box 4 Folder 37
Williamson
Box 4 Folder 38
Willkie
Box 4 Folder 39
Wi
Box 4 Folder 40
Wo
Box 4 Folder 41
Wo - Ya
Box 4 Folder 42
Young Men's Christian Association to Young Women's Christian Association
Box 4 Folder 43
Yale, 1932-1944
Box 4 Folder 44
Yale, May - July, 1945
Box 4 Folder 45
Yale, July - October, 1945
Box 4 Folder 46
Yale, February 1946 - September 1962
Box 4 Folder 47
Yale, 1963 - 1969
Box 4 Folder 48
Yale, Union Movement, Local 35, AFL-CIO, Yale University Employees
Box 4 Folder 49
Series II. Publications.
Academic Freedom
Box 5 Folder 1
An Active Manpower Policy and Economic Fluctuations
Box 5 Folder 2
Active Manpower Policy, Industrial Relations Center, University of Minnesota (Bakke - Speaker)
Box 5 Folder 3
Adaptive Human Behavior
Box 5 Folder 4
Adaptive Human Behavior ("notes for revision")
Box 5 Folder 5
Adaptive Human Behavior (diagrams used)
Box 5 Folder 6
Adaptive Human Behavior (conferences between Holm, Argyris and Bakke)
Box 5 Folder 7
Adaptive Human Behavior (a progress report from Chris Argyris)
Box 5 Folder 8
Adaptive Human Behavior (miscellaneous notes)
Box 5 Folder 9
An Address to the Alumni, August 2, 1945
Box 5 Folder 10
The American Character and The American Charter
Box 5 Folder 11
1) An Analysis of Labor Movements, 2) An Appraisal of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Cost of Living... 3) Approach to the Study of Social Stratification
Box 5 Folder 12
Balancing Incentive and Security
Box 5 Folder 13
1) The Basic Issue in Labor and Management Relations, 2) The Basic Need for Social Insurance, 3) The Basic Principles of Human Relations
Box 5 Folder 14
Basic Realities in a System of Unemployment Benefits
Box 5 Folder 15
Basic Research in Human Relations
Box 5 Folder 16
Bedriftens Informasjonsproblem
Box 5 Folder 17
The Beveridge Plan and America
Box 5 Folder 18
Bonds of Organization
Box 5 Folder 19-20
Bonds of Organization, Tests of Efficiency
Box 5 Folder 21
Bonds of Organization, The Local Development...
Box 5 Folder 22
Bonds of Organization, Research Material
Box 5 Folder 23-25
Bonds of Organization, Charts
Box 5 Folder 26
Book Reviews
Box 5 Folder 27
British Experience with Unemployment
Box 5 Folder 28
Campus Challenge, Original Manuscript
Box 5 Folder 29-36
Campus Challenge, Outline and Bibliography Notes
Box 6 Folder 1
Campus Challenge, Another Copy
Box 6 Folder 2-6
Campus Challenge, India
Box 6 Folder 7-11
Campus Challenge, Egypt
Box 6 Folder 12-14
Campus Challenge, Research
Box 6 Folder 15
Campus Challenge, Research Bibliographies
Box 6 Folder 16
Campus Challenge, Book and Personal Contacts
Box 6 Folder 17
Campus Challenge, South American and Mexican Correspondence
Box 6 Folder 18
Campus Challenge, Research Materials
Box 6 Folder 19-23
Campus Challenge, "Galleys" Bibliography
Box 6a Folder 1
Campus Challenge, I. Preface, II. Appendix, III. Wiggen Memos
Box 6a Folder 2
Campus Challenge, Section 5
Box 6a Folder 3
Campus Challenge, Duplicate
Box 6a Folder 4
Campus Challenge, Second Page-Proof
Box 6a Folder 5
Campus Challenge
Box 6a Folder 6
Causes of Trade Unionism
Box 7 Folder 1
Certain Factors Reducing the Effectiveness of the Technical Assistance Program
Box 7 Folder 2
Characteristic Features and Functions of the Union
Box 7 Folder 3
City of New Haven
Box 7 Folder 4
Collective Bargaining in the Public Sector
Box 7 Folder 5
Communications: Sharing Information with Employees
Box 7 Folder 6
Concept of Social Organization
Box 7 Folder 7
Concept of Social Organization, another copy
Box 7 Folder 8
Concept of Social Organization (was published as Chap. 2 of a book entitled: Modern Organization Theory by Mason Haire)
Box 7 Folder 9
Concept of Social Organization, Research Material
Box 7 Folder 10
The Constitution
Box 7 Folder 11
Coordination of Manpower Services, Some Important Premises
Box 7 Folder 12
Copenhagen Lectures, Part I
Box 7 Folder 13
Copenhagen Lectures, Part II
Box 7 Folder 14
Cultural Factors in Industrial Relations
Box 7 Folder 15
The Debate on Socialized Medicine
Box 7 Folder 16
Democracy
Box 7 Folder 17
Democracy and Voluntary Groups
Box 7 Folder 18
Denmark Speeches, 1953
Box 7 Folder 19
Dimensions of Federal Manpower Policy
Box 7 Folder 20
1) E.C.A. Group for Forestry Assoc., 2) Educational Objectives
Box 7 Folder 21
Eastern Water Company (Bakke - Speaker)
Box 7 Folder 22
1) Employment Service in a Full Employment, 2) Ethnocentrism
Box 7 Folder 23
Employment Service, NY Department of Labor (Bakke - Speaker)
Box 7 Folder 24
Employment Service, The Key Agency in a Positive Manpower and Employment Program
Box 7 Folder 25
Employment Training, Industrial Relations Center, University of Minnesota (Bakke - Speaker)
Box 7 Folder 26
Evaluation of Langstroth Employee Diagnostic Survey
Box 7 Folder 27
Evaluation of Marxism
Box 7 Folder 28
Executive Leadership and Management, U.S. Bureau of Employment Security (Bakke - Speaker)
Box 7 Folder 29-30
1) Experience of Japanese Students, 2) Explanation of My Research
Box 7 Folder 31
Extended Unemployment Compensation Benefits in the Post Armament Readjustment
Box 7 Folder 32
Facts Versus Theories in Great Britain
Box 7 Folder 33
The Fifth Winter of Unemployment Relief, 1935
Box 7 Folder 34
The Fortune Survey: Fortune Magazine
Box 7 Folder 35
Framework for the Analysis of Industrial Relations: Two Views
Box 7 Folder 36
Framework for the Study of Human Relations
Box 7 Folder 37
From Tactics to Strategy in Industrial Relations
Box 7 Folder 38-39
Frontiers of Human Relations, Parts I and II
Box 7 Folder 40-41
Frontiers of Industrial Relations Research
Box 7 Folder 42