Whyte, William Foote Additional Papers, 1928-1990
Collection Number: /4087

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


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
William Foote Whyte Additional Papers, 1928-1990
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
/4087
Creator:
Whyte, William Foote
Quanitities:
8 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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William Foote Whyte Additional Papers #/4087. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.

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SUBJECTS

Names:
Whyte, William Foote,1914-2000.
New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations --Faculty.

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Box 4 Folder 1
Langone Politics
1937
Box 4 Folder 2
Nortons
1937-1938
Box 4 Folder 3
Notes and Papers Street Corner Society Structure + Informal Groups
1939
Box 4 Folder 4
Racketeers Lives and Businesses
1938
Box 4 Folder 5
Nortons and Leadership I; List of Nicknames
1937
Box 4 Folder 6
The Nortons- Leadership II
1937
Box 4 Folder 7
Nortons Following I VU
1937
Box 4 Folder 8
Langone Politics II (Fitzgerald)
1937-1938
Box 4 Folder 9
"Chichi"
1937
Box 4 Folder 10
Leo's Coffee House
1938-1939
Box 4 Folder 11
North End Clippings
1941-1942
Box 4 Folder 12
Race Relations: The Irish vs. the Italians
1939
Box 4 Folder 13
Misc. Beginnings - Housing Survey, etc.
1937
Box 4 Folder 14
Religion and The Feasts
1938-1939
Box 4 Folder 15
Miscellaneous
1937
Box 4 Folder 16
The Mass March
1939
Box 4 Folder 17
Slum Sex Code
1937
Box 4 Folder 18
Richmond and North Streets Jannes Club
1938
Box 4 Folder 19
Original 13
1939
Box 4 Folder 20
Settlement House, Recreational Centers
1937-1939
Box 4 Folder 21
J. Howard's Material
1937
Box 4 Folder 22
John F. Fitzgerald Clippings
1938
Box 4 Folder 23
Social Anthropological Study of a North End Family- Jimmy Spatz
1938-1939
Box 4 Folder 24
DiCarlis, Christine Serra
1937
Box 4 Folder 25
The Racketeer in the Cornerville S. and A. Club
1940
Box 4 Folder 26
SCS Orientation Literature- Nature of City Life
1937
Box 4 Folder 27
Political Meetings
1938-1939
Box 4 Folder 28
Police and Politics
1937-1942
Box 4 Folder 29
North North End
1938-1939
Box 4 Folder 30
Politics and the Local Structure
1940
Box 4 Folder 31
Book II, Part I. The Social Structure of Racketeering
1940
Box 4 Folder 32
The Nortons and their Leader
1940
Box 4 Folder 33
The Rise and Fall of the Community Club
1940
Box 4 Folder 34
Two Worlds [folder 1 of 2]
Scope and Contents
pp.1-271. Handwritten. Photocopy.
Box 5 Folder 1
Two Worlds [folder 2 of 2]
Scope and Contents
pp.272-559. Handwritten. Photocopy.
Box 5 Folder 2
Articles by Whyte
1943
Box 5 Folder 3
Misc. Notes Part I
1939
Box 5 Folder 4
Misc. Notes Part II
1939-1941
Box 5 Folder 5
Misc. Notes Part III
1939
Box 5 Folder 6
Hanover Associates
1939-1941
Box 5 Folder 7
Italian Fellowship League
1937-1940
Box 5 Folder 8
Phillips Petrol Part I
1943
Box 5 Folder 9
Phillips Petrol. Part II
1943
Box 5 Folder 10
People in Petroleum
1943
Box 5 Folder 11
Report on the Radisson- Manuscript
1947
Box 5 Folder 12
Chandler's Restaurant Part I
1943
Box 5 Folder 13
Chandler's Restaurant Part II
1943
Box 5 Folder 14
Phillip's Correspondence
1943-1944
Box 5 Folder 15
Phillips Part I
1942-1943
Box 5 Folder 16
Phillips Part II
1942-1943
Box 5 Folder 17
Plans for Organizing Studies
1936-1937
Box 5 Folder 18
Letters on Writings
1940
Box 5 Folder 19
Notes on North End
1989-1990
Box 5 Folder 20
Phillips Co. Letters
1944
Box 5 Folder 21
North End Letters
1943
Box 5 Folder 22
Misc. Letters
1937-1939
Box 5 Folder 23
Plans
1940
Box 5 Folder 24
Letters on St. Corner Society
1941-1944
Box 5 Folder 25
Personal Letters
1939-1941
Box 5 Folder 26
North End Letters
1937-1942
Box 6 Folder 1
College Writings
1941
Box 6 Folder 2
Various Letters
1943
Box 6 Folder 3
Correspondence
1935
Box 6 Folder 4
Grade Reports
1928-1934
Box 6 Folder 5
Buchsbaum I
1946
Box 6 Folder 6
Buchsbaum II
1947
Box 6 Folder 7
Stouffer's Notes I
1944
Box 6 Folder 8
Stouffer's Notes II
1944
Box 6 Folder 9
Stouffer's Notes III
1944
Box 6 Folder 10
Marshall Field Restaurant Interviews
1944-1945
Box 6 Folder 11
Correspondence and Clippings
1953-1968
Box 6 Folder 12
Union-Management Cooperation
1947
Box 6 Folder 13
Sidney Garfield
1947
Box 6 Folder 14
Phillips
1943
Box 6 Folder 15
Inland Steel Container
1947
Box 6 Folder 16
Inland Steel Container Documents I
1947
Box 6 Folder 17
Inland Steel Container Documents II
1948-1950
Box 6 Folder 18
Inland Steel
1948
Box 6 Folder 19
Restaurant Association/ Restaurant Book
1945
Box 6 Folder 20
Unwritten Book (Loomis-CMA) Research Group
1942-1943
Box 6 Folder 21
Research Group
1946
Box 6 Folder 22
Oklahoma Teaching Notes
1942
Box 6 Folder 23
Bundy, continued
1945-1947
Box 6 Folder 24
Bundy Paper
1947
Box 6 Folder 25
Age Grading
1942
Box 6 Folder 26
Chicago Teaching
1947
Box 7 Folder 1
Rocco #1
Box 7 Folder 2
Rocco #2
Box 7 Folder 3
Swarthmore Writing
Box 7 Folder 4
Novel "Campaign"
Box 7 Folder 5
North End Fiction
Box 7 Folder 6
North End Fiction - cont.
Box 7 Folder 7
Municipal Finance
Box 7 Folder 8
Govt. + Business Paper
1934
Box 7 Folder 9
Bill Whyte Writings
Box 7 Folder 10
TVA Project
Box 8
Text digitized from the collection.