© 2003 Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and
Archives, Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Emily Clark Brown File
on the Soviet Union,
1936-1962.
Collection Number:
5297
Creator:
Brown, Emily Clark,
1895-1980.
Quantity:
.3 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Notes, reports,
correspondence.
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management
Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Includes notes, reports and a letter
containing Brown's observations on Soviet life and Soviet workers.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Professor Emily Clark Brown (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1923) was
an associate industrial economist, U.S. Women's Bureau, 1929, assistant
professor of economics at Wellesley and assistant professor, later professor,
of economics at Vassar College, beginning in 1932. Brown was a specialist in
labor economics and wrote on collective bargaining, national labor policy and
labor in the Soviet Union.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Includes typescript of a letter (1936) from Brown written on board the
Cunard White Star "Britannia" to her mother concerning her observations of
Russia, in particular on Soviet workers; food abundance, especially produce;
hygiene; health programs; education; factories and unions; the Kirov
assassination and press censorship; privileges of Communist Party members; and
the socio-political situation in Berlin during the Olympic Games preparation;
also mentioned are the Ukraine, Kharkov, Rostov, and Tiflis.
Also includes Brown's notes (copy) on a 30-day visit to Moscow,
Leningrad, Kiev, and Kharkov in the Soviet Union to study the Soviet labor
market and the policies and practices of the distribution of the Soviet labor
force (1955).
Brown's report (copy) on her observations of labor relations in the
Soviet Union discusses meetings with Soviet economists and legal experts; the
Leningrad Finance-Economics Institute; the Kiev Institute of Economics; the
Academy of Science of Ukraine; Regional Trade Union Councils in Leningrad,
Ivanova, Rostov-on-Don, and Kiev; the Central Committee of Trade Unions, Trade
Union Factory Committee (leaders, administration); and Soviet salaries and
wages (1959).
Brown's report (copy) to the American Council of Learned Societies on
her trip to the Soviet Union, particularly Moscow and Leningrad, discusses the
Regional and Central Council of Trade Unions, the Electosil Plant, the Zrasnoe
Plant, the Znamya Plant, a sewing plant near Volodarskova, the House
Construction Combine, the Institute of Soviet American Relations, visits to
Soviet schools and cultural sites, and conversations with Soviet citizens.
SUBJECTS
Names:
Brown, Emily Clark
Central Council of Trade
Unions (Soviet Union)
Institute of Soviet
American Relations.
Subjects:
Labor--Soviet Union.
Labor supply--Soviet Union.
Trade-unions--Soviet Union.
Wages--Soviet Union.
College teachers.
Economists.
Places:
Soviet Union--Politics and
government--1936-1953.
Soviet Union--Politics and
government--1953-
Form and Genre Terms:
Reports.