Labor Schools for Women Workers Pamphlet Collection

Collection Number: 5531

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:

Labor Schools for Women Workers Pamphlet Collection,

Collection Number:

5531

Creator:

Aaron, Maxine L. Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr Summer School Hudson Shore Labor School Southern School for Workers

Quantity:

0.5 linear ft.

Forms of Material:

Pamphlets, publications.

Repository:

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library

Abstract:

Consist chiefly of correspondence and reports generated by the various workers' education schools of the Affiliated Summer Schoools for Workers. Materials generally pertain to the conduct of courses, fundraising and cooperative activities of the summer schools and the American Labor Education Service.

Language:

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Maxine L. Aaron collected these documents in the course of her service on the Pittsburgh committees of the Bryn Mawr Summer School, the Affiliated Summer Schools for Workers, and the Hudson Shore Labor School. She was also active on the Workers Education Advisory Committee of the Works Progress Administration's Pittsburgh workers education project.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Materials regarding the American Labor Education Service (ALES) include pamphlets, reports and notes on government support of workers' education programs, labor plays, music, women workers, unions and workers' education, workweek and wages, and activities of student workers. Also reading lists and bibliographies; brochures and pamphlets on courses and curricula offered at the various affiliated schools; an ALES scrapbook; and letters of the ALES staff to various unions and philanthropic organizations pertaining to finances and recruitment of staff and students (1928-1937).

Also materials regarding the Works Progress Administration's Pittsburgh workers' education project. These include minutes of the Workers Education Advisory Committee; memoranda, reports and letters on the training institute, communist instructors and administrators of the project, housing, curricula, fundraising, and union cooperation (1938-1940).

Additional materials include brochures, pamphlets, yearbooks and routine correspondence regarding the Bryn Mawr School, Hudson Shore Labor School and the Southern School for Workers.

SUBJECTS

Names:

Aaron, Maxine L.

Affiliated Summer Schools for Workers.

American Labor Education Service (ALES)

Bryn Mawr College

Bryn Mawr Summer School.

Hudson Shore Labor School.

Southern School for Workers.

United States. Works Progress Administration for Pennsylvania.

United States. Works Progress Administration for Pennsylvania. Educational and Recreational Division.

United States. Works Progress Administration. Workers' Education Advisory Committee.

United States. Works Progress Administration. Workers' Education Project.

Workers' Education Advisory Committee of Allegheny County.

Subjects:

Adult education of women. United States.

Adult education. United States. Curricula.

Federal aid to adult education. United States.

Labor unions and communism. United States.

Occupational training. United States.

Workers' education. United States.

Adult education teachers.

Form and Genre Terms:

Publications.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Access Restrictions:

Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference archivist for access to these materials.

Restrictions on Use:

This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.

Cite As:

Labor Schools for Women Workers Pamphlet Collection #5531. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.

RELATED MATERIALS

Related Collections:
5225: ALES Records
5225 C: ALES Course Materials
5225 E: ALES Labor Education Records
5225 I: ALES International Labor Records
5225 I: ALES International Labor Records
5577: U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of the Census 1968 National Longitudinal Survey of Work Experience of Females, 14- 24
5657: American Labor Education Service Additional Documents
6046: Archives Union File (AUF)

CONTAINER LIST

Container		Description	Date
Box 1	Folder 1	Affiliated School for Workers. ALES
Box 1	Folder 1	Item 1: Workers Education and the Trade Union Movement	1938
		Author: Affiliated Schools for Workers
		Notes: Conference of Teachers in Workers Education, February 19-20, 1938
		Format: Publication
		Language: English.
Box 1	Folder 1	Item 2: The Affiliated Schools for Workers
		Author: Eleanor G. Coit; Andria Taylor Hourwich
		Notes: Reprinted from Bulletin 8 of the World Association for Adult Education
		Format: Publication
		Language: English.
Box 1	Folder 1	Item 3: Labor Problems in Modern Society	1924
		Author: Paul H. Douglas; William A. Orton
		Notes: Amherst College Classes for Workers, 1924-1925
		Format: Publication
		Language: English.
Box 1	Folder 1	Item 4: Summer School for Office Workers	1936
		Author: Elinor Pancoast
		Notes: Reprinted from American Federationist, October, 1936
		Format: Publication
		Language: English.
Box 1	Folder 1	Item 5: The Affiliated Schools for Workers
		Author: Affiliated Schools for Workers
		Format: Publication
		Language: English.
Box 1	Folder 1	Item 6: Affiliated Schoolss Scrapbook	1937
		Author: Affiliated Schools for Workers
		Notes: v.1:no.3/4 (1937:Mar.) Snapshots of Workers' Education Here and Abroad
		Format: Publication
		Language: English.
Box 1	Folder 1	Item 7: Summer School for Office Workers
		Author: Affiliated Schools for Workers
		Notes: Leaflet
		Format: Publication
		Language: English.
Box 1	Folder 1	Item 8: Place of the White Collar Worker in the Labor Movement	1938
		Author: Affiliated Schools for Workers
		Notes: Philadelphia Conference, February 12-13, 1938. Leaflet
		Format: Publication
		Language: English.
Box 1	Folder 1	Item 9: Endowing Workers' Education
		Author: Affiliated Schools for Workers
		Format: Publication
		Language: English.
Box 1	Folder 1	Item 10: Endowing Workers' Education
		Author: Affiliated Schools for Workers
		Notes: Copy 2.
		Format: Publication
		Language: English.
Box 1	Folder 1	Item 11: Government Support of Worker's Education: With Special Reference to Denmark and Sweden
		Author: Eleanor G. Coit
		Format: Publication
		Language: English.
Box 1	Folder 2	Affiliated School for Workers. Reading Lists
Box 1	Folder 2	Item 1: Suggested Reading List: Novels, Plays, Giographies, Poetry Dealing With Social and Economic Problems	1933
		Author: Continuation Committee
		Notes: May, 1933.
		Format: Publication
		Language: English.
Box 1	Folder 2	Item 2: Suggested Reading List: Novels, Plays, Giographies, Poetry Dealing With Social and Economic Problems	1941
		Author: Elinore G. Black
		Format: Publication
		Language: English.
Box 1	Folder 2	Item 3: Second Supplement to the Annotated List of Pamphlet Material for Workers' Classes	1941
		Author: Orlie Pell
		Format: Publication
		Language: English.
Box 1	Folder 2	Item 4: Annoted List of Materials for Workers' Classes	1932
		Author: Continuation Committee
		Notes: January, 1932.
		Format: Publication
		Language: English.
Box 1	Folder 3	Affiliated School for Workers. Court Materials
Box 1	Folder 3	Item 1: The Shrinking Week and the Growing Wage: Present Problems in the Light of the Past	1931
		Author: Katherine H. Pollak; Dorothy Lefferts Moore
		Notes: Second edition
		Format: Publication
		Language: English.
Box 1	Folder 3	Item 2: The Shrinking Week and the Growing Wage: Present Problems in the Light of the Past	1931
		Author: Katherine H. Pollak; Dorothy Lefferts Moore
		Notes: Third edtion
		Format: Publication
		Language: English.
Box 1	Folder 3	Item 3: A Study of the Activities of Former Students of the Summer Schools for Workers
		Author: Louise Leonard McLaren; Olga Law Plunder
		Format: Publication
		Language: English.
Box 1	Folder 3	Item 4: This America: A Study of Literature Interpreting the Development of American Civilization	1931
		Author: Jean Carter
		Format: Publication
		Language: English.
Box 1	Folder 3	Item 5: Education That Changes Lives
		Author: Affiliated Schools for Workers
		Format: Publication
		Language: English.
Box 1	Folder 3	Item 6: Survey of Women in the Development of America
		Author: Elinore G. Black
		Format: Publication
		Language: English.
Box 1	Folder 3	Item 7: Monograph on Methods of Teaching English to Workers' Classes	1931
		Author: Olga Law Plunder
		Format: Publication
		Language: English.
Box 1	Folder 4	Bryn Mawr Summer School for Woman Works in Industry
Box 1	Folder 4	Item 1: These Are The Words We Said	1940
		Author: Hudson Shore Labor School
		Notes: Year book
		Format: Publication
		Language: English.
Box 1	Folder 4	Item 2: Keep Coming On	1941
		Author: Hudson Shore Labor School
		Notes: Year book
		Format: Publication
		Language: English.
Box 1	Folder 5	Hudson Shore Labor School	1940-1941
Box 1	Folder 5	Item 1: Hudson Shore Year Book	1943
		Author: Hudson Shore Labor School
		Notes: Year book
		Format: Publication
		Language: English.
Box 1	Folder 5	Item 2: 44 at Hudson Shore	1944
		Author: Hudson Shore Labor School
		Notes: Year book
		Format: Publication
		Language: English.
Box 1	Folder 5	Item 3: 25th Summer Session for Men and Women Workers in Industry	1945
		Author: Hudson Shore Labor School
		Notes: June 30 - August 11, 1945.
		Format: Publication
		Language: English.
Box 1	Folder 6	Hudson Shore Labor School	1943-1945
Box 1	Folder 6	Item 1: Southern Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
		Author: Southern Summer School
		Format: Publication
		Language: English.
Box 1	Folder 6	Item 2: Southern Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
		Author: Southern Summer School
		Notes: Copy 2.
		Format: Publication
		Language: English.
Box 1	Folder 6	Item 3: Southern Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
		Author: Southern Summer School
		Notes: Copy 3.
		Format: Publication
		Language: English.
Box 1	Folder 6	Item 4: Southern Summer School for Women Workers in Industry	1938
		Author: Southern Summer School
		Notes: July 21 - September 1, 1938, Asheville, NC
		Format: Publication
		Language: English.
Box 1	Folder 7	Southern Summer School for Women Workers
Box 1	Folder 7	Item 1: Report of the Barnard Summer School for Women Workers in Industry	1928
		Author: Barnard Summer School
		Format: Publication
		Language: English.
Box 1	Folder 8	Wisconsin Summer School for Workers in Industry
Box 1	Folder 8	Item 1: Six Weeks of University Life Offered You	1929
		Author: Summer School for Workers in Industry
		Notes: July 2 to August 9, 1929
		Format: Publication
		Language: English.
Box 1	Folder 8	Item 2: Six Weeks of University Life Offered You	1930
		Author: Summer School for Workers in Industry
		Notes: June 28 to August 8, 1930
		Format: Publication
		Language: English.
Box 1	Folder 8	Item 3: Summer School for Workers in Industry	1931
		Author: Summer School for Workers in Industry
		Notes: June 27 to August 7, 1931
		Format: Publication
		Language: English.
Box 1	Folder 8	Item 4: The School for Workers	1938
		Author: Summer School for Workers in Industry
		Notes: June 26 - August 5, 1938
		Format: Publication
		Language: English.
Box 1	Folder 8	Item 5: The School for Workers	1938
		Author: Summer School for Workers in Industry
		Notes: June 26 - August 5, 1938. Copy 2.
		Format: Publication
		Language: English.
Box 1	Folder 8	Item 6: The School for Workers	1938
		Author: Summer School for Workers in Industry
		Format: Publication
		Language: English.
Box 1	Folder 8	Item 7: Summer School for Workers in Industry: The Open Door to Wider Horizons
		Author: Summer School for Workers in Industry
		Format: Publication
		Language: English.
Box 1	Folder 9	Pittsburgh Committee. Minutes & Reports
Box 1	Folder 10	Pittsburgh Committee. Correspondences
Box 1	Folder 11	Pittsburgh Committee. Treasurer
Box 1	Folder 12	WPA
Box 1	Folder 13	WPA Clippings

Contents

Labor Schools for Women Workers Pamphlet Collection

Collection Number: 5531

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library