ILR School Alice Cook 100th Birthday Conference Records
Collection Number: /4282
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Title:
ILR School Alice Cook 100th Birthday Conference Records,
2002-
2004
Collection Number:
/4282
Creator:
New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations (NYSSILR)
Quantity:
2.4
linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Records (documents).
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
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
New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Form and Genre Terms:
Records (documents).
Access Restrictions:
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Restrictions on Use:
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be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.
Cite As:
ILR School Alice Cook 100th Birthday Conference Records #/4282. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives,
Cornell University
Library.
Related Collections:
/4282 AV: ILR School Alice Cook 100th Birthday Conference Audio-Visual Materials
/4282 AV: ILR School Alice Cook 100th Birthday Conference Audio-Visual Materials
Container
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Description
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Date
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Box 1 | |||
Box 1 | Folder 1 | 2003 | |
Contains 3 floppy discs
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Box 1 | Folder 2 | 2003-2005 | |
Box 1 | Folder 3 | 2004 | |
Box 1 | Folder 4 | 2003 | |
November 2003
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Box 1 | Folder 5 | 2003-2004 | |
Box 1 | Folder 6 | 2003 | |
November 21 - 22 2003
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Box 1 | Folder 7 | 2003 | |
Box 1 | Folder 8 | 2003-2004 | |
Box 1 | Folder 9 | 2000-2003 | |
Box 1 | Folder 10 | 2003 | |
Box 1 | Folder 11 | 2003 | |
Box 1 | Folder 12 | 2003 | |
Box 1 | Folder 13 | 2003 | |
Box 1 | Folder 14 | 2003 | |
Box 1 | Folder 15 | 2003 | |
Box 1 | Folder 16 | 2000-2002 | |
Box 1 | Folder 17 | 2003 | |
Box 1 | Folder 18 | 1993-2002 | |
Box 2 | |||
Box 2 | Folder 1 | 2003 | |
Box 2 | Folder 2 | 2003 | |
Box 2 | Folder 3 | 2003 | |
3 copies. November 2003
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Box 2 | Folder 4 | 2003 | |
Box 2 | Folder 5 | ||
2 physical photos, 1 CD
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Box 2 | Folder 6 | 2003-2004 | |
Box 2 | Folder 7 | 1995-2003 | |
Box 2 | Folder 8 | 2003-2004 | |
Box 2 | Folder 9 | 2003 | |
Box 2 | Folder 10 | 2004 | |
February 12 2004
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Box 2 | Folder 11 | 2003 | |
Box 2 | Folder 12 | 2003 | |
Box 2 | Folder 13 | 2003-2004 | |
Box 2 | Folder 14 | 2004 | |
Box 3 | |||
Box 4 |