ILR School Working Women's Institute Files, 1971-1986
Collection Number: /3099
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
ILR School Working Women's Institute Files, 1971-1986
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
/3099
Abstract:
Consists of course manuals, workshop handbook,s event programs, and newsletters on
women in trade unions.
Creator:
New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations (NYSSILR)
Institute for Education and Research on Women and Work
Quanitities:
1 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
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INFORMATION FOR USERS
ILR School Working Women's Institute Files #/3099. Kheel Center for Labor-Management
Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
This collection wsa re-processed and re-named in March 2024. The original title of
the collection was "ILR School Working Women's Institute Files." The new title better
reflects the content and creators of the collection.
The Institute for Education and Research on Women and Work records contains course
manuals, workshop handbooks, and event programs, 1961-1994 (bulk 1971-1983). Subjects
include women in American labor history, leadership psychology, assertiveness, personal
finance, and maternity/pregnancy provisions. Though the majority of the collection
reflects the program's operations in New York City, folders 5 and 6 document similar
operations at the Buffalo and Rochester Extension offices. Also contains handouts,
brochures, and bulletins on sexual harassment in the workplace from the Working Women's
Institute.
The Institute of Education and Research on Women and Work grew out of the Trade Union
Women's Studies program, founded in 1973 and operated out of the NYSSILR Metropolitan
office in New York City. In 1971, the Metropolitan office began responding to the
growing needs of working women by offering experimental seminars like "Womanpower:
A New Voice in Union and Community." A Ford Foundation grant in 1972 funded a pilot
study conducted by the Metropolitan office, which revealed educational and social
barriers to women's participation in unions. Consequently, Trade Union Women's Studies
was established in 1973 with Barbara Wertheimer and Anne Nelson serving as the program's
first Director and Associate Director, respectively.
Trade Union Women's Studies became a research center and resource for working women,
organizing workshops, short courses, seminars, and conferences in New York City, Rochester,
and Buffalo. A year-long reserve credit program designed for union women, an alternate
first-year track in Cornell's two-year Labor/Liberal Arts Certificate Program, launched
in fall of 1974, offering courses in communication, labor history, and leadership.
In 1975, the program renamed itself Working Women's Program for Research and Education
and expanded their reach, developing a statewide education network linking business
and labor unions with two and four-year institutions and planning a national training
program in arbitration and mediation for women and minorities with Professor Jean
McKelvey. In 1977, NYSSILR approved Wertheimer and Nelson's proposal to establish
the Institute for Education and Research on Women and Work to continue the program.
The Institute remained active into the mid-1980s.
Names:
New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Workshops and conferences
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1971-1972 |
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Scope and Contents
Includes planning materials, correspondence, and handwritten notes for two conferences:
"Womanpower - A New Voice in Union and Community" (1971), "Womanpower - A New Voice
in Union and Community II" (1971) and "Women and Unions" (1972).
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Course: Women in American Labor History
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1975-1980 |
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Scope and Contents
Also includes course outline for "Maternity and Pregnancy Provisions US and Abroad"
by Jeanne M. Stellman, PhD
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Trade Union Women's Studies program and events
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1961, 1970-1978 |
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Scope and Contents
Includes. promotional materials for the program. Also includes Includes conference
and seminar material on women and money, women and law, and career development.
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| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Introduction to Collective Bargaining
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1976-09 |
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Scope and Contents
Course outline prepared by Francine Herman
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Central District Extension Division, Women's Education and Development Committee
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1974-1979 |
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Processing Information
Folder originally titled "Trade Union Women's Studies Rochester"
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Scope and Contents
Contains memos, clippings workshop advertisements, and the 1978-1979 Rochester Career
Development Women's Studies handbook
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| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Buffalo Labor Studies program
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1974 |
| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Workshop handbooks
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1976-1978 |
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Scope and Contents
Contains Trade Union Women's Studies workshop handbooks for "Mathematics of Work"
(April 1976, Barbara Stern-Coder), "Psychology of Leadership" (Spring 1976, Anne H.
Nelson); Institute for Education and Research on Women and Work workshop handbooks
for "E
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| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Workshop handbooks
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1974-1978 |
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Scope and Contents
Contains Trade Union Women's Studies workshop handbook for "Women in American Labor
History" (March 1974, Louise Mitchell) and Institute for Education and Research on
Women and Work workshop handbooks for "Parliamentary Procedure (September 1978).
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| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Writing and Study Skills
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1977 |
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Scope and Contents
12 session course for Women's First Year Labor/Liberal Arts program.
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| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Courses, workshops, conference materials
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1974-1986 |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
100 Years of Women in the Workforce
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1975-09 |
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Scope and Contents
Course handbook by Louise Pearson Mitchell
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| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Manual on Union Organization and Administration
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1981-12 |
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Scope and Contents
Revised course handbook by Barbara Wertheimer
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| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Social Behavior and Work
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1977 |
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Scope and Contents
Course handbook by Anne H. Nelson
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| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Writing and Study Skills
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1974-09 |
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Scope and Contents
Course handbook by Constance Taber Colby
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| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Working Women's Institute
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1975-1983 |
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Scope and Contents
Includes handouts and survey on how to deal with sexual harassment and Working Women's
Institute brochures.
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| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Working Women's Institute
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1977-1994 |
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Scope and Contents
Contains articles by or citing members of the Working Women's Institute (WWI) and
WWI digests and legal briefs. Also includes the testimony of the WWI and the Women's
Legal Defense Fund before the Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations of the House
Co
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| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Indiana University
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1978 |
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Scope and Contents
Contains narrative report and instruction materials from "Leadership Training for
Trade Union Women" grant project and correspondence from Suzanna Maffei, Project Director,
Indiana University Division of Labor Studies, to Barbara Wertheimer.
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| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Enhancing Your Test Taking Abilities: A Manual for Administrative Employees in NYS
Service
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1979-08 |
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Scope and Contents
Manual for course
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| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Strategies for New Health Delivery Services for Unions and Communities
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1974-08-19-1974-08-20 |
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Scope and Contents
Proceedings of the National Conference
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| Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Working Women's Institute
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1983-1986 |
| Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Working Women's Institute research bulletins and reports.
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1975-1982 |