Rubinow, Isaac Max Selected Files on Microfilm, 1892-1945
Collection Number: 5616 (A) mf
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Isaac Max Rubinow Selected Files on Microfilm, 1892-1945
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5616 (A) mf
Abstract:
Scrapbooks copied to microfilm.
Creator:
Rubinow, Isaac Max
Quanitities:
0.33 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
Isaac Max Rubinow (18751936) was a leading theorist on social insurance and one of
the most influential writers on the subject. Rubinow was an MD, and held a Ph.D. in
economics from Columbia University.
His work impacted a generation of social reformers, including President Theodore
Roosevelt, who used Rubinow's work in drafting the Progressive Party platform in 1912.
The Progressive Party was the first of its kind to call for social insurance.
Rubinow was a Russian Jew who immigrated to the United States in 1893, at the age
of 18. He trained as a medical doctor at Columbia University and New York University
Medical School. When he grew frustrated with not being able to help his patients lessen
their economic woes, he decided to change professions.
He became employed as an economic expert in the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture's Bureau
of Statistics, Division of Foreign Markets, he wrote extensively about the development
of the Russian wheat market and the impact of growing Russian wheat exports on U.S.
and world markets.
Later employed as an actuary, Rubinow was very important in the formation of the
Casualty Actuarial and Statistical Society of America in 1914, which is known as Casualty
Actuarial Society today.
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INFORMATION FOR USERS
Isaac Max Rubinow Selected Files on Microfilm #5616 (A) mf. Kheel Center for Labor-Management
Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Names:
Rubinow, I. M. (Isaac Max), 1875-1936
Subjects:
Social security -- United States.
CONTAINER LIST
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| Reel 1 |
Selected Files.
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| Reel 2 |
Selected Files. Copy 2.
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| Reel 3 |
Clipping scrapbook.
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