Brown, Emily Clark Papers, 1936-1962
Collection Number: 5297m
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Emily Clark Brown Papers, 1936-1962
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5297m
Abstract:
Includes notes, reports and a letter containing Brown's observations on Soviet life
and Soviet workers.
Creator:
Brown, Emily Clark
Quanitities:
1 folders
Language:
Collection material in English
Emily Clark Brown was a professor and labor economist.
Professor Brown (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1923) was an associate industrial
economist, US Women's Bureau, 1929, assistant professor of economics at Wellesley
and assistant professor, later professor, of economics at Vassar College, beginning
in 1932. Brown was a specialist in labor economics and wrote on collective bargaining,
national labor policy and labor in the Soviet Union.
Includes notes, reports and a letter containing Brown's observation on Soviet life
and Soviet workers.
Includes typescript of a letter (1936) from Brown written on board the Cunard White
Star "Britannia" to her mother concerning her observations of Russia, in particular
on Soviet workers; food abundance, especially produce; hygiene; health programs; education;
factories and unions; the Kirov assassination and press censorship; privileges of
Communist Party members; and the socio-political situation in Berlin during the Olympic
Games preparation; also mentioned are the Ukraine, Kharkov, Rostov, and Tiflis.
Also includes Brown's notes (copy) on the 30-day visit to Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev,
and Kharkov in the Soviet Union to study the Soviet labor market and the policies
and practices of the distribution of the Soviet labor force (1955).
Brown's report (copy) on her observations of labor relations in the Soviet Union
discusses meetings with Soviet economists and legal experts; the Leningrad Finance-Economics
Institute; the Kiev Institute of Economics; the Academy of Science of Ukraine; Regional
Trade Union Councils in Leningrd, Ivanova, Rostox-on-Don, and Kiev; the Central Committee
of Trade Unions, Trade Union Factory Committee (leaders, administration); and Soviet
salaries and wages (1959).
Brown's report (copy) to the American Council of Learned Societies on her trip to
the Soviet Union, particularly Moscow and Leningrad, discusses the Regional and Central
Council of Trade Unions, the Electosil Plant, the Zrasnoe Plant, the Znamya Plant,
a sewing plant near Volodarskova, the House Construction Combine, the Institute of
Soviet American Relations, visits to Soviet schools and cultural sites, and conversations
with Soviet citizens.
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Emily Clark Brown Papers #5297m. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and
Archives, Cornell University Library.
Names:
Central Union of Trade Unions (Soviet Union)
Institute of Soviet American Relations
Soviet Union
Brown, Emily Clark, 1895-1980
Subjects:
Labor--Soviet Union.
Labor supply--Soviet Union.
Trade-unions--Soviet Union.
Wages--Soviet Union.
College teachers.
Economists.
Soviet Union--Politics and government--1936-1953.
Soviet Union--Politics and government--1953-
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Emily Brown papers
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1936-1962 |