Alice Cook Biographical Reminiscences Audio-Visual Materials
Collection Number: /3012av
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Title:
Alice Cook Biographical
Reminiscences Audio-Visual Materials, 1983-2003
Collection Number:
/3012av
Creator:
Cook, Alice
Quantity:
5.7 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Biography (genre), audiovisual
materials.
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and
Archives, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Audio recordings of Alice Cook's biographical
reminiscences
Language:
Collection material in English
Alice Hanson Cook (1903 - 1998) devoted her life to helping working people, and
especially working women, on four continents. What she herself called her
''patchwork career'' included social work, adult education, labor organizing, a tour
of foreign service at the end of World War II, twenty years teaching in Cornell's
School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and authoring numerous books and articles.
She was a pioneer in bringing attention to issues such as comparable worth,
maternity leave, and pay equity, known for both her scholarly writings and her
activism on the experiences of working women around the world.
Alice attended Northwestern University's School of Speech from 1920-1924, gaining her
only formal degree. (She would later receive a number of honorary doctorates,
including one from Northwestern.) While enrolled at Northwestern, Alice began her
studies of both economics and social work, as well as beginning her lifelong
attachment to the ideals of socialism. Early employment with the YWCA''s Industrial
Department in the 1920s led her to find ways to use the Y for both union support
efforts and attempts to organize women workers previously ignored by unions, such as
domestic servants. These early efforts with the Y led to Alice''s involvement with
adult labor education efforts such as the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers,
Arkansas' Commonwealth College, the Southern Summer School for Workers in North
Carolina, and the Hudson Shore School. They also led to her first direct employment
by the union movement, as she worked for the early CIO''s Textile Workers'
Organizing Committee.
The 1930s and 40s also mark the beginning of Alice's interests in similar
developments around the world. From 1929 to 1931, she studied in Germany under a
DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) fellowship, beginning her long
association with the German system of adult and labor education. She would return to
Germany after World War II, when she became the chief of adult education in
Germany''s American Zone for the Education Division of the High Commission, Germany.
Her travels through Germany at this time combined with her own personal experiences
led her to become intrigued with questions of comparative systems of labor
education. She would ultimately travel throughout both Western and Eastern Europe as
well as Asia in order to carry out her research.
Alice's academic career began in 1952, when she was hired by the New York State
School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. She
began as a researcher in the School's extension division, but moved into a full
academic teaching position in 1955. She served as a well-respected teacher in the
School up to her retirement in 1972.
Names:
Cook, Alice Hanson
Form and Genre Terms:
Biography (genre)
Audiovisual materials
Access Restrictions:
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a
reference archivist for access to these materials.
Restrictions on Use:
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet
and Procedures for Document Use.
Cite As:
Alice Cook Biographical Reminiscences Audio-Visual Materials #/3012av. Kheel
Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University
Library.
Related Collections:
/3012: Alice Cook Papers
/4118mb: ILR School Alumni Memorabilia
/4238p: Alice H. Cook Memorial Celebration Photo Display
/4209p: Alice H. Cook Memorial Service Photographs
/4270: Francine Herman collection of Alice H. Cook Memorial Celebration files
/4282: ILR School Alice Cook 100th Birthday Conference Records
5930mf: Morris L. Cooke "Industrial Management" Monograph on Microfilm
/3012: Alice Cook Papers
/4118mb: ILR School Alumni Memorabilia
/4238p: Alice H. Cook Memorial Celebration Photo Display
/4209p: Alice H. Cook Memorial Service Photographs
/4270: Francine Herman collection of Alice H. Cook Memorial Celebration files
/4282: ILR School Alice Cook 100th Birthday Conference Records
5930mf: Morris L. Cooke "Industrial Management" Monograph on Microfilm
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Recorded sometime from 1975-1981.
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Recorded sometime from 1975-1981.
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Box 7 | |||
Recorded sometime from 1975-1981.
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Box 8 | 1983 | ||
November 28, 1983.
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Box 9.1 | |||
Box 9.1 | 1987 | ||
Copy 1
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Box 9.2 | |||
Box 9.2 | 1987 | ||
Copy 2
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Box 10 | |||
1. Needham 2. Ardie 3. Working Mothers 4. Labor Department Perth
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Box 11 | |||
16. Hongo continued 17. Nakazawa 18. Sato 19. Watanabe 20. Yoshida and
Kenbara
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Box 12 | |||
12. Women's Electoral Lobby continued 13. Salmon 14. Women in steel plant 15.
Dept. of Labor Adelaide 16. Women's Meeting
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Box 13 | |||
17. Swinson Popel 18. Levi Strauss 19. Clarke's Shoes 20. Group Laundry 21.
Adams
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Box 14 | |||
21. Adams continued 22. Trades and Labor Council 23. Employers' Association
24. Eaton 25. Committee on Sex Discrimination 26. Community Welfare
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Box 15 | |||
27. Further Education; Cunningham; Migrant Hostel 28. Gully 29. Lyne Browne
30. Commonwealth Dept. of Labor
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Box 16 | |||
30. Commonwealth Dept. of Labor 31. Nylex Corp. 32. Davenport 33. Brotherhood
of St. Lawrence 34. Brickmakers Union 35. Telephone Union
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Box 17 | |||
35. Telephone Operators continued 36. WEL Mahlab v. Richmond 37. State
Department of Labor and Industry 38. Ericson's 39. Fords 40. Rowntree 41.
ACTU 42. Coleman and WEL
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Box 18 | |||
42. Coleman continued 43. E. Reud 44. Carl Wellesley 45. Burroughs-Welcome
46. Kearney; notes on Kunugra from Repol
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Box 19 | |||
49. Anthony Squires 50. Nurseries 51. ACTU Women
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Box 20 | |||
49. ACTU continued 50. Malley's 51. Women's Organizations 52. V. Smith 53.
Fry
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Box 21 | |||
54. V. Read and Letter 55. Justice Evatt 56. Summary of Debriefing
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Box 22 | |||
1. Nakanishi 2. Suzuki 3. Vocational Training
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Box 23 | |||
4. Takeshima 5. Yamamoto 6. Kageyama
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Box 24 | |||
7. Vocational School 8. Tada 9. Izunoi 10. Isetou
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Box 25 | |||
11. Kafore 12. Ichibongase 13. Hayashi
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Box 26 | |||
13. Hayashi continued 14. Takahasi 15. Tanaka 16. Hongo
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Box 27 | |||
20. Yoshida Lab Office continued 21. Child Care Center 22. Tokyo Women's
Office
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Box 28 | |||
22. Tokyo Women's Division continued 23. Hayashi Interview 24. Hoikuen
Interview 25. Hayashi continued 26. Public Officials 27. Housing Project
Center
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Box 29 | |||
30. Hanami 31. Kamisawa 14. Takahashi continued 32. Tax Office
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Box 30 | |||
32. Tax Office continued 32. Sato 33. Zentei 34. Seki, Nikkerei
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Box 31 | |||
34. Seki continued 35. Jichiro 36. Zenichijuro 37. Zendentsu
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Box 32 | |||
37. Zendentsu continued 38. Yamazaki 39. Nurses Association 40. Keio Case
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Box 33 | |||
40. Keio Case continued 41. Akamatsu-Tanami 42. Nurses
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Box 34 | |||
42. Nurses continued 43. Kashiwabara 44. Hamawi 45. Nuita 46. Takahashi
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Box 35 | |||
47. Nakamoto 48. Nagoya 49. Mayuma
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Box 36 | |||
49. Mayuma continued 50. Vocation officers 51. Ohwaki and Nagoya 52. Nagoya
Meeting 53. Asano Maru
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Box 37 | |||
54. Vocational School 55. Mistsumi Co. 56. Women's Club 57. Tizuka City 58.
Abe
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Box 38 | |||
58. Abe continued 59. Ata 60. Hebe, More 61. Iwataya 62. Noguchi
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Box 39 | |||
62. Noguchi continued 63. Masuko 64. Sohyo 65. Rodo Kyokai 66. Tanaka 67.
Shimazu
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Box 40 | |||
67. Shimazu continued 68. Tomiyama and Mikake 69. Kageyama 70. Training
Directors 71. ILO Association
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Box 41 | |||
Vogel tapes
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Box 42 | |||
Vogel Tapes, Jan Ting
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Box 45 | |||
Box 46 | |||
Box 47 | |||
Box 48 | |||
Parish Notes
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Box 49 | |||
5. Employers' Federation 6. Miscellaneous 7. Barney and Blanchard 8. Alan
Jones 9. Bruce Buche 10. Callandar et al. 11. Latter T&LC Perth 12.
Women's Electoral Lobby
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Box 50 | 1978 |