Whyte, William Foote Office Records, 1947-1977
Collection Number: /4058

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


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
William Foote Whyte Office Records, 1947-1977
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
/4058
Creator:
Whyte, William Foote.
Quanitities:
4 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English

Biographical / Historical

William Foote Whyte (June 27, 1914-July 16, 2000) was a sociologist chiefly known for his ethnographic study in urban sociology, Street Corner Society. Whyte, from an upper middle class background, showed an early interest in writing, economics and social reform. After graduating from Swarthmore College, he was selected for the Junior Fellows program, where his landmark research was done. After his research in Boston, he entered the sociology doctoral program at the University of Chicago. Street Corner Society was published by the University of Chicago Press in 1943. He spent a year teaching at the University of Oklahoma, but developed polio in 1943 and spent two years in physical therapy at the Warm Springs Foundation. Rehabilitation was only partially successful; Whyte walked with a cane for the rest of his life, and used two arm crutches in his later years. He briefly returned to the University of Chicago in 1944, then joined the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University in 1948, remaining at Cornell for the remainder of his career. He worked for social reform and social change, directing his efforts toward "empowering the disenfranchized and narrowing the gap between rich and poor." He studied industrial and agricultural workers and workers' cooperatives in Venezuela, Peru, Guatemala and in the Basque region of Spain, as well as in the United States. He authored hundreds of articles and 20 books including an autobiography. He is considered a pioneer in industrial sociology.
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Preferred Citation

William Foote Whyte Office Records #/4058. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.

Related Materials

Related Collections: /4087: William Foote Whyte Additional Papers /4094: William Foote Whyte Additional Papers /4102: William Foote Whyte Additional Papers /4149: William Foote Whyte Additional Papers /4151: William Foote Whyte Additional Papers /4149 AV: "ASA Award Presentation to William Foote Whyte by Jacqueline Scheier" Audio-Visual Materials /4168: William Foote Whyte Additional Papers /4173: William Foote Whyte Additional Papers

SUBJECTS

Names:
Whyte, William Foote, 1914-2000

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Box 1 Folder 1
Dunkirk Institute Reports
1951
Box 1 Folder 2
Moore Business Forms Plant
1949
Box 1 Folder 3
Fairport Report
1952
Box 1 Folder 4
Moore Interviews
1949
Box 1 Folder 5
Moore Business Forms 2nd Supervisory Training Course
1949
Box 1 Folder 6
MBF 2nd Supervisory Training Course Final Report of Meetings
1949
Box 1 Folder 7
Money & Motivation
1949
Box 1 Folder 8
Human Relations Research in Corning Glass Works- Whyte, Miller
1953
Box 1 Folder 9
Pattern for Ind Peace
1949
Box 1 Folder 10
Elmira Release to Papers re: Fairport
1949
Box 1 Folder 11
Core Course-Field Methods Interviewing, etc. Whyte, Richardson, Macmillan, Dean, etc. (1 of 2)
1953-1954
Box 1 Folder 12
Core Course-Field Methods Interviewing, etc. Whyte, Richardson, Macmillan, Dean, etc. (2 of 2)
1952
Box 1 Folder 13
Design for Experiment
1950-1951
Box 1 Folder 14
Bradford A Group
1952
Box 1 Folder 15
Lee Bradford's A Group
1950
Box 1 Folder 16
A Group Report members, perceptions, and questions
1950
Box 1 Folder 17
Lee Bradford's A Group Meeting Reports
1950
Box 1 Folder 18
Class Cases
1950-1951
Box 1 Folder 19
Training Materials
1949-1952
Box 1 Folder 20
Interview with Al Wagner
1953
Box 1 Folder 21
Remington Rand Union Officers
1950
Box 1 Folder 22
A Group Report
1949
Box 1 Folder 23
HR Debates
1947-1950
Box 1 Folder 24
T-Borg Research Meetings (1 of 2)
1951-1953
Box 1 Folder 25
T-Borg Research Meetings (2 of 2)
1953
Box 1 Folder 26
Outline of Productivity Volume
1949
Box 2 Folder 1
Proposed Curriculum
1968-1969
Box 2 Folder 2
Salaries
1947-1968
Box 2 Folder 3
Instituto de Estudios Peruanos
1959-1972
Box 2 Folder 4
National Science Foundation
1966-1968
Box 2 Folder 5
IEP Correspondence
1972
Box 2 Folder 6
IEP Correspondence
1969-1974
Box 2 Folder 7
Dean McConnell
1959-1962
Box 2 Folder 8
Member Structured Conference and Group Dynamics
1950
Box 2 Folder 9
HR Research Meetings
1950-1951
Box 2 Folder 10
NIMH Project #6198
1962-1964
Box 2 Folder 11
Dean Catherwood
1954-1958
Box 2 Folder 12
Peruvian Government
1959
Box 2 Folder 13
Cornell-CAL Relationship
1967-1968
Box 2 Folder 14
Creole Petroleum Corporation
1953-1954
Box 2 Folder 15
Creole
1952-1954
Box 2 Folder 16
Obstetrical Service
1955-1956
Box 2 Folder 17
Housing of Creole Workers
1952-1954
Box 2 Folder 18
Progress Reports on Whyte's Project
1954-1955
Box 2 Folder 19
Creole-Caracas
1955
Box 2 Folder 20
General-Bolivar District
1955
Box 2 Folder 21
Creole Correspondence (1 of 2)
1955
Box 2 Folder 22
Creole Correspondence (2 of 2)
1954-1955
Box 2 Folder 23
National Science Foundation (1 of 2)
1966-1967
Box 2 Folder 24
National Science Foundation (2 of 2)
1963-1965
Box 2 Folder 25
Dr. Jose Matos (1 of 2)
1965-1970
Box 2 Folder 26
Dr. Jose Matos (2 of 2)
1964-1967
Box 3 Folder 1
Teaching Course Materials
1952-1953
Box 3 Folder 2
Teaching Course Materials
1961
Box 3 Folder 3
Human Problems of U.S. Enterprise in Latin America Spring Summer Institute
1956
Box 3 Folder 4
ILR Case Material
1956
Box 3 Folder 5
Teaching Cases (1 of 2)
1951
Box 3 Folder 6
Teaching Cases (2 of 2)
1950-1954
Box 3 Folder 7
ILR 420 Experimental Course on Group Processes (1 of 3)
1959
Box 3 Folder 8
ILR 420 Experimental Course on Group Processes (2 of 3)
1959
Box 3 Folder 9
ILR 420 Experimental Course on Group Processes (3 of 3)
1959
Box 3 Folder 10
Agency for International Development
1966
Box 3 Folder 11
Agency for International Development
1966
Box 3 Folder 12
Agriculture Development Council Account
1966
Box 3 Folder 13
Agriculture Development Council, Inc. Report for 1975
1971-1975
Box 3 Folder 14
Brian Tucker
1975-1976
Scope and Contents
Fall 1975
Box 3 Folder 15
Roca Santiago
1975
Box 3 Folder 16
Mami Mizele
1974-1975
Box 3 Folder 17
Don Lifton
1967
Box 3 Folder 18
David Leslie
1971
Box 3 Folder 19
Art Hansen
1970
Box 3 Folder 20
Access
1974-1975
Box 3 Folder 21
Marco Ferroni
1975
Box 3 Folder 22
Richard Weiss
1973-1974
Box 3 Folder 23
Rutgers
1975-1976
Box 3 Folder 24
Perry: Dirty Work, Clean Jobs, Proud Men
1976
Box 3 Folder 25
Gerald Gordon
1969
Box 3 Folder 26
Official Letters (1 of 2)
1966-1976
Box 3 Folder 27
Official Letters (2 of 2)
1962-1966
Box 3 Folder 28
Systems Research Working Paper Series
1974-1976
Box 4 Folder 1
The Puebla Project
1967-1973
Box 4 Folder 2
On the Future of the Social Sciences at Cornell
1975
Box 4 Folder 3
Organizational Behavior Research
1977