Wertheimer, Barbara Research Files, 1914-1982
Collection Number: 5729

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:

Barbara Wertheimer Research Files, 1914-1982

Repository:

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives

Collection Number:

5729

Abstract:

This collection consists mostly of research materials for a monograph she was working on at the time of her death. The tentative title for this book was "Our Century, Our Time" and was to be about working women in America from 1914 to 1983.

Creator:

Wertheimer, Barbara

Quanitities:

12 cubic feet

Language:

Collection material in English

Biographical / Historical

Barbara Mayer Wertheimer (1926-September 23, 1983) was an American labor historian and labor organizer from the 1940s through the early 1980s.

From 1947 to 1948 Ms. Wertheimer was an organizer and acting education director for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. She worked briefly for the American Labor Education Service and then from 1961 to 1966 as a consultant for the New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal. In 1966 Ms. Wertheimer joined the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. While at Cornell she was a senior extension associate, director of the Trade Union Women's Studies program, and, from 1977 on, an associate professor and director of the Institute for Women and Work, which she cofounded. Ms. Wertheimer remained at Cornell until her death in 1983.

Ms. Wertheimer is well known for her monograph "We Were There: The Story of Working Women in America" (1977).

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Preferred Citation

Barbara Wertheimer Research Files #5729. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.

Related Materials

SUBJECTS

Names:

Wertheimer, Barbara Mayer,1926-1983

Subjects:

Women in trade-unions--United States.

CONTAINER LIST

Container		Description	Date
Box 1	Folder 1	Blacks-Gen.-Completed
Box 1	Folder 2	Black Work Experience S. Koester
Box 1	Folder 3	Finished Material, Blacks WWI
Box 1	Folder 4	Health and Safety
Box 1	Folder 5	Nursing 1900 to 1920	1900-1920
Box 1	Folder 6	Protective Laws - WWI
Box 1	Folder 7	Railroads	1914-1980
Box 1	Folder 8	Special Industries - WWI
Box 1	Folder 9	1914 to Present - Statistics
Box 1	Folder 10	Strikes 1914-1918	1914-1918
Box 1	Folder 11	Statistics - WWI
Box 1	Folder 12	Unions - WWI
Box 1	Folder 13	Wages and Hours
Box 1	Folder 14	WTUL
Box 1	Folder 15	War Industries - WWI
Box 1	Folder 16	Bio's Individual
Box 1	Folder 17	Immigrants
Box 1	Folder 18	Blacks 1918-1933	1918-1933
Box 1	Folder 19	Depression
Box 1	Folder 20	Household Workers 1920s	1920-1929
Box 1	Folder 21	Employment 1918-1933	1918-1933
Box 1	Folder 22	Equal Rights 1920s	1920-1929
Box 1	Folder 23	General - 1920s	1920-1929
Box 1	Folder 24	Garment Industry 1918-1933	1918-1933
Box 1	Folder 25	Labor Education - 1920s	1920-1929
Box 1	Folder 26	Organizing - 1920s	1920-1929
Box 1	Folder 27	Protective Laws 1918-1933	1918-1933
Box 1	Folder 28	Non Traditional Jobs - 1920s	1920-1929
Box 1	Folder 29	Suffrage
Box 1	Folder 30	Women in WWI and 1920s	1920-1929
Box 1	Folder 31	Occupational Health and Safety
Box 2	Folder 1	Southern Workers 1920s	1920-1929
Box 2	Folder 2	Special Industries 1920s	1920-1929
Box 2	Folder 3	Statistics - 1920s	1920-1929
Box 2	Folder 4	Strikes 1920s	1920-1929
Box 2	Folder 5	Unions - 1920s	1920-1929
Box 2	Folder 6	Wages 1920s	1920-1929
Box 2	Folder 7	Women's Bureau
Box 2	Folder 8	UWCH
Box 2	Folder 9	Blacks 1930	1930
Box 2	Folder 10	Depression
Box 2	Folder 11	Employment - 1930s
Box 2	Folder 12	General 1930s	1930-1939
Box 2	Folder 13	Household Workers 1930s	1930-1939
Box 2	Folder 14	Labor Education 1930s
Box 2	Folder 15	Legislation	1933-1945
Box 2	Folder 16	Organizations - 1930s	1930-1939
Box 2	Folder 17	Southern Workers 1930s	1930-1939
Box 2	Folder 18	Nursing 1930s	1930-1939
Box 2	Folder 19	Occupational Health and Safety 1933-1945	1933-1945
Box 2	Folder 20	Special Industries 1930s	1930-1939
Box 2	Folder 21	Statistics - 1930s	1930-1939
Box 2	Folder 22	Occupations 1930s	1930-1939
Box 2	Folder 23	Strikes 1930s	1930-1939
Box 2	Folder 24	Unions - 1930s	1930-1939
Box 2	Folder 25	White Collar - 1933-45	1933-1945
Box 2	Folder 26	Working Conditions
Box 2	Folder 27	Wages 1930s	1930-1939
Box 2	Folder 28	WTUL - 1920s	1920-1929
Box 3	Folder 1	Women's Charter	1937
Box 3	Folder 2	WTUL 1930s	1930-1939
Box 3	Folder 3	Blacks WWII
Box 3	Folder 4	Armed Services WWII
Box 3	Folder 5	Aviation
Box 3	Folder 6	Child Care
Box 3	Folder 7	Employment WWII
Box 3	Folder 8	Homework 1941-1945	1941-1945
Box 3	Folder 9	Special Industries WWII
Box 3	Folder 10	Unions - WWII
Box 3	Folder 11	Wages - WWII
Box 3	Folder 12	War Industries WWII
Box 3	Folder 13	General WWII
Box 3	Folder 14	Women in World War II
Box 3	Folder 15	WTUL 1940s	1940-1949
Box 3	Folder 16	Blacks 1945-1964	1945-1964
Box 3	Folder 17	Woman's Bureau WWII Frieds Miller
Box 3	Folder 18	Employment and Unemployment
Box 3	Folder 19	Equal Pay
Box 3	Folder 20	Equal Rights
Box 3	Folder 21	General 1945-1964
Box 3	Folder 22	Household Workers 1940s	1940-1949
Box 3	Folder 23	Health and Safety 1940	1940
Box 3	Folder 24	Labor Education 1940s	1940-1949
Box 3	Folder 25	The Southern School for Workers 1940s	1940-1949
Box 3	Folder 26	Legislation 1945-1964	1945-1964
Box 3	Folder 27	Women in Work - Miscellaneous FF27
Box 4	Folder 1	Occupations 1940s	1940-1949
Box 4	Folder 2	Organizations 1945-1964	1945-1964
Box 4	Folder 3	Public Employment 1945-1964	1945-1964
Box 4	Folder 4	Railroads 1950s	1950-1959
Box 4	Folder 5	Southern Women 1940s	1940-1949
Box 4	Folder 6	Special Industries 1945-1964	1945-1964
Box 4	Folder 7	Statistical Info 1945-1964	1945-1964
Box 4	Folder 8	WTUL 1945	1945
Box 4	Folder 9	Unions 1945-1964
Box 4	Folder 10	Unions - Meat Packing
Box 4	Folder 11	Post War Problems - 1945	1945
Box 4	Folder 12	Wages 1945-1964	1945-1964
Box 4	Folder 13	White Collar Workers
Box 4	Folder 14	Bibliography
Box 4	Folder 15	Blacks - General 1964-Now	1964
Box 4	Folder 16	Changing Hours, Flex Time, Parental Leave, QWL
Box 4	Folder 17	Clerical 0 White collar 1964-Now	1964
Box 4	Folder 18	Labor Education/Working Women
Box 4	Folder 19	Garment 1964-Now
Box 4	Folder 20	Women's Bureau Conference	1945-1950
		Scope and Contents April 18 1945, Nov. 10,1950
Box 4	Folder 21	Women's Bureau
Box 4	Folder 22	Blue Collar 1964-Now	1964
Box 4	Folder 23	Unions - General
Box 4	Folder 24	General 1964-Now	1964
Box 4	Folder 25	ERA and Feminist Activities 1964-Now	1964
Box 4	Folder 26	Issues - Current
Box 4	Folder 27	Labor Education 1964-Now	1964
Box 5	Folder 1	Legislation, Courts, Policies, 1964-Now	1964
Box 5	Folder 2	Non-Traditional Jobs 1964-Now	1964
Box 5	Folder 3	Occupations - Nursing
Box 5	Folder 4	Statistics 1964-Present	1964
Box 5	Folder 5	Strikes - Other
Box 5	Folder 6	Southern Workers 1964-Now	1964
Box 5	Folder 7	Unemployment 1964-Now	1964
Box 5	Folder 8	Unions-General
Box 5	Folder 9	Unions 1964-Now	1964
Box 5	Folder 10	Unions - Amalgamated
Box 5	Folder 11	Wages 1964-Now
Box 5	Folder 12	White Collar Workers 1964-Now
Box 5	Folder 13	Women in Labor Force - 1964
Box 5	Folder 14	Black Women 1970s	1970-1979
Box 5	Folder 15	Apprenticeship (17)	1979
Box 5	Folder 16	Attitudes 1970s	1970-1979
Box 5	Folder 17	Bibliography 1970s	1970-1979
Box 5	Folder 18	Blacks (General) 1970s	1970-1979
Box 5	Folder 19	Blacks in the Work Force 1970s	1970-1979
Box 5	Folder 20	Blacks - Others 1970s	1970-1979
Box 6	Folder 1	Blue Collar Workers
Box 6	Folder 2	Child Care
Box 6	Folder 3	Chronology
Box 6	Folder 4	Chemical Workers 70's
Box 6	Folder 5	Conferences + Workshops
Box 6	Folder 6	The Economy
Box 6	Folder 7	Education 70's
Box 6	Folder 8	Employment 70's
Box 6	Folder 9	Equal Pay
Box 6	Folder 10	Equal rights
Box 6	Folder 11	FARAH Strike
Box 6	Folder 12	Maternity Leaves
Box 6	Folder 13	Heads of Families
Box 6	Folder 14	Hours of work
Box 6	Folder 15	Equal employment
Box 6	Folder 16	Household Workers 70's
Box 6	Folder 17	Immigrants + Aliens
Box 6	Folder 18	Labor Education I
Box 6	Folder 19	Labor Education II
Box 6	Folder 20	Labor History
Box 6	Folder 21	Legislation
Box 6	Folder 22	Marriage + Divorce
Box 6	Folder 23	Miners 70's
Box 7	Folder 1	Native Americans 1970s	1970-1979
Box 7	Folder 2	Non-Traditional Jobs 1970s	1970-1979
Box 7	Folder 3	Nursing 1970s	1970-1979
Box 7	Folder 4	Oral History	1970-1979
Box 7	Folder 5	Politics 1970s	1970-1979
Box 7	Folder 6	Poverty 1970s	1970-1979
Box 7	Folder 7	Protective Laws	1970-1979
Box 7	Folder 8	Public Sector Service
Box 7	Folder 9	Safety and Health 1970s	1970-1979
Box 7	Folder 10	Sexual Harassment
Box 7	Folder 11	Southern 1970s	1970-1979
Box 7	Folder 12	Statistics I (13)
Box 7	Folder 13	Statistics II 1970s	1970-1979
Box 7	Folder 14	Stress 1970s	1970-1979
Box 7	Folder 15	Strikes (16)
Box 7	Folder 16	Technology 1970s (17)	1970-1979
Box 7	Folder 17	Trends (18)
Box 7	Folder 18	Unemployment and Welfare 1970s	1970-1979
Box 7	Folder 19	Unions I 1970s	1970-1979
Box 7	Folder 20	Unions 1970s	1970-1979
Box 7	Folder 21	Unions J.P. Stevens (22)
Box 8	Folder 1	Unions-Women in II 1970s	1970-1979
Box 8	Folder 2	Wages (2) 1970s	1970-1979
Box 8	Folder 3	White Collar Workers 1970s	1970-1979
Box 8	Folder 4	Work Alienation 1970s	1970-1979
Box 8	Folder 5	Women in Unions I (6)	1970-1979
Box 8	Folder 6	Social Alienation
Box 8	Folder 7	1980
Box 8	Folder 8	Abortion (7) 1980s	1980-1989
Box 8	Folder 9	Aging
Box 8	Folder 10	Armed Services 1980s	1980-1989
Box 8	Folder 11	Attitudes and Issues 1980s	1980-1989
Box 8	Folder 12	Blacks - General and History 1980s	1980-1989
Box 8	Folder 13	Blacks in the Work Force 1980s	1980-1989
Box 8	Folder 14	Blacks and Other Minorities 1980s	1980-1989
Box 8	Folder 15	Blue Collar Workers 1980s	1980-1989
Box 8	Folder 16	Clerical Workers 1980s	1980-1989
Box 8	Folder 17	Communications Workers 1980s	1980-1989
Box 8	Folder 18	Blacks-Women 1980s	1980-1989
Box 8	Folder 19	Conference and Workshops 1980s	1980-1989
Box 8	Folder 20	The Economy 1980s	1980-1989
Box 8	Folder 21	Day Care 1980s	1980-1989
Box 8	Folder 22	Education 1980s	1980-1989
Box 8	Folder 23	Employment 1980s	1980-1989
Box 9	Folder 1	Equal Pay 1980s	1980-1989
Box 9	Folder 2	ERA 1980s	1980-1989
Box 9	Folder 3	Equal Rights 1980s	1980-1989
Box 9	Folder 4	Flight Attendants 1980s	1980-1989
Box 9	Folder 5	Household Workers 1980s	1980-1989
Box 9	Folder 6	Hours of Work 1980s	1980-1989
Box 9	Folder 7	Immigrants and Aliens	1980-1989
Box 9	Folder 8	International Woman's Day
Box 9	Folder 9	Home Work
Box 9	Folder 10	Foreign Issues 1980s	1980-1989
Box 9	Folder 11	Native Americans 1980s	1980-1989
Box 9	Folder 12	Non-Traditional Occupations 1980s	1980-1989
Box 9	Folder 13	Nursing 1980s	1980-1989
Box 9	Folder 14	Occupational Hazards
Box 9	Folder 15	Organizations
Box 9	Folder 16	Pensions 1980s	1980-1989
Box 9	Folder 17	Postal Workers 1980s	1980-1989
Box 9	Folder 18	Second Jobs
Box 9	Folder 19	Politics	1980-1989
Box 9	Folder 20	Poverty
Box 9	Folder 21	Reagan (Comics) 1980s	1980-1989
Box 9	Folder 22	Religions
Box 9	Folder 23	Sex Harassment
Box 9	Folder 24	Sex Discrimination 1980s	1980-1989
Box 9	Folder 25	Social Security
Box 9	Folder 26	Solidarity Day 1980s	1980-1989
Box 9	Folder 27	Southern
Box 9	Folder 28	Statistics 1980s	1980-1989
Box 9	Folder 29	Strikes
Box 10	Folder 1	Technology 1980s	1980-1989
Box 10	Folder 2	Tuition Refund
Box 10	Folder 3	Unemployment 1980s	1980-1989
Box 10	Folder 4	Unions (and South Africa) 1980s	1980-1989
Box 10	Folder 5	Unions - JP Stevens (6)
Box 10	Folder 6	Unions (Women in) (7)
Box 10	Folder 7	Unions (9)
Box 10	Folder 8	Unions (10)
		Scope and Contents Mineworkers United - District 50 (UMW) Newspaper Guild - ANG Packinghouse Workers - UPWA Postal Workers - UFPC Retail Clerks Screen Actors Guild - SAG Service Employees - SEIU
Box 10	Folder 9	Unions (4)
		Scope and Contents Steelworkers - USWA Teachers -AFT & UFT Transportation - UTU Typographical - ITU Utilities - UWVA
Box 10	Folder 10	United Auto Workers 12
Box 10	Folder 11	AFSCME (13)
Box 10	Folder 12	Nurses (esp. 1199)
Box 10	Folder 13	Flight Attendants (15)
Box 10	Folder 14	Wages and Earnings (16)
Box 10	Folder 15	White Collar Workers 1980s	1980-1989
Box 10	Folder 16	Women's Rights (On the Job)	1980-1989
Box 10	Folder 17	Working Mothers 1980s	1980-1989
Box 10	Folder 18	Yale (Unionization of Clericals at)
Box 10	Folder 19	Biographies
Box 10	Folder 20	Biography - A-C
Box 10	Folder 21	Bio's Bloor, Ella
Box 10	Folder 22	Ethlyn Christensen Interview - 10/78 - Denver	1978
Box 10	Folder 23	Bio's - Day, Dorothy
Box 10	Folder 24	Bio's - D-F
Box 10	Folder 25	Bio's - G-K
Box 10	Folder 26	Bio's - Herstein, Lillian
Box 10	Folder 27	Bio - Florence Kelly
Box 10	Folder 28	Bio's - L-N
Box 10	Folder 29	Bio's - Nestor Agnes
Box 10	Folder 30	Bio's Newman, Pauline
Box 10	Folder 31	Bio's - O-R
Box 10	Folder 32	Bio's - Roosevelt, Eleanor
Box 10	Folder 33	Biography - Karen Silkwood
Box 10	Folder 34	Bio's Miscellaneous
Box 10	Folder 35	Bio's - U-Z
Box 11	Folder 1	Lyrics
Box 11	Folder 2	To Be Interviewed
Box 11	Folder 3	Farm Workers
Box 11	Folder 4	1970's Farmworkers Some 1960 Info.	1970-1979
Box 11	Folder 5	Migrant Workers 1914-Present (also Tenant Farmers and Sharecroppers)
Box 11	Folder 6	Migrants 1980s	1980-1989
Box 11	Folder 7	Non-Traditional Jobs
Box 11	Folder 8	Latinos - Farmworkers, etc. Chicanas
Box 11	Folder 9	Chinese Workers - ACWA & ILGWU Asian American
Box 11	Folder 10	Oral Histories U. Michigan/Wayne State A to I
Box 11	Folder 11	Oral Histories - U. Michigan/Wayne State M to Q
Box 11	Folder 12	Oral Histories - U. Michigan/Wayne State R to Z
Box 11	Folder 13	Bibliographies
Box 11	Folder 14	Sources - Vol. II
Box 11	Folder 15	Sources - Libraries
Box 11	Folder 16	Sources - Other
Box 11	Folder 17	Books to Look At
Box 11	Folder 18	Computer Printouts of Materials from Manila Folders Related to Book
Box 11	Folder 19	Chapter Notes from Sept. 1982
Box 11	Folder 20	General Overview - 1914
Box 11	Folder 21	Blacks - General Overview
Box 11	Folder 22	Blacks	1914-1920
Box 11	Folder 23	Clerical 1920s Overview	1920-1929
Box 11	Folder 24	Movements - Suffrage, Birth Control	1914-1920
Box 11	Folder 25	Notes: Women in WWI and Strikes to 1920
Box 11	Folder 26	Protective Leg	1914-1920
Box 11	Folder 27	General 1920s	1920-1929
Box 11	Folder 28	Blacks 1920s	1920-1929
Box 11	Folder 29	Protective Labor Leg 1920s	1920-1929
Box 11	Folder 30	Women Workers and Feminism - Post-Suffrage Movements; Prot. Laws; Liberal-Conservative Battle; Lemons Book	1920-1929
Box 11	Folder 31	South - 1920s	1920-1929
Box 11	Folder 32	Depression - General
Box 11	Folder 33	Women - WWII
Box 11	Folder 34	General 1970s	1970-1979
Box 11	Folder 35	Current 1980s	1980-1989
Box 11	Folder 36	Photo Ideas(follow-up)
Box 12	Folder 1	First National Working Conference on Research: Women in Blue Collar Jobs	1974
		Scope and Contents December 5-6,1974
Box 12	Folder 2	Workers' Report on the Condition of Labor and their Effect on Patient Care at San Francisco General Hospital	1979
		Scope and Contents March 1979
Box 12	Folder 3	AFL Gompers et al.
Box 12	Folder 4	Imperialism/Sp. American War
Box 12	Folder 5	Negro Workers and Socialist/Communists
Box 12	Folder 6	New Job Areas
Box 12	Folder 7	Post-War Impact on Black Workers
Box 12	Folder 8	National Labor Union
Box 12	Folder 9	Colored National Labor Union
Box 12	Folder 10	Migration 1865-1918
Box 12	Folder 11	Migration 1918-1924
Box 12	Folder 12	Men and General
Box 12	Folder 13	General: Black Workers, Men, Women
Box 12	Folder 14	Black Work Experience	1977
Box 12	Folder 15	Black Work Experience	1978
Box 12	Folder 16	The Depression: General
Box 12	Folder 17	Employment Conditions - Urban
Box 12	Folder 18	Rural Ag. Conditions
Box 12	Folder 19	Workers/Riots
Box 12	Folder 20	Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Box 12	Folder 21	Black Workers in the South	1914-1929
Box 12	Folder 22	Black Workers - Selected Industries
Box 12	Folder 23	Black Workers	1914-1918
Box 12	Folder 24	Blacks in the Armed Forces
Box 12	Folder 25	Black Workers and Related Org. - NACW
Box 12	Folder 26	Early NAACP, Urban League
Box 12	Folder 27	World War I: General Impact
Box 12	Folder 28	Garvey Movement
Box 12	Folder 29	The IWW
Box 12	Folder 30	The Economic Status of Minorities
Box 12	Folder 31	Impact on Black Workers
Box 12	Folder 32	Black Workers and the Armed Forces
Box 12	Folder 33	Unions and Black Workers	1941-1945
Box 12	Folder 34	Black Workers and the New Deal
Box 12	Folder 35	CIO / Lewis/ Murray et al.
Box 12	Folder 36	Black Workers and Organized Labor	1929-1941
Box 12	Folder 37	NYT/WSJ	1977
Box 12	Folder 38	Organization: NAACP, Urbanize, CORE and others
Box 12	Folder 39	Women and Rights/Workers
Box 12	Folder 40	Black Workers in the South
Box 12	Folder 41	Black Workers and Education
Box 12	Folder 42	Black Workers in Labor Unions
Box 12	Folder 43	Civil Rights/Bl. Workers

Contents

Wertheimer, Barbara Research Files, 1914-1982 Collection Number: 5729

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Cornell University Library

Wertheimer, Barbara Research Files, 1914-1982
Collection Number: 5729

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library