Dearborn Group Records, 1951-1973
Collection Number: 5569
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Dearborn Group Records, 1951-1973
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5569
Abstract:
Biannual meeting minutes, research files, and correspondence.
Creator:
Dearborn Group
Quanitities:
2 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
The Dearborn Conference Group is an organization of directors of Industrial Relations
Research Departments in several large U.S. corporations.
The Dearborn Group includes representatives from major corporations in the automotive,
chemical, food processing, paper manufacturing, petroleum, petrochemical, steel, telecommunications
and textile industries as well as corporate officers with similar responsibilities
representing major utilities, the retail trade and an insurance carrier. Their objectives
in meeting as a group are the futherance of industrial relations research methodology,
information exchange about industrial relations experiences, and the promotion of
industrial relations research.
The Dearborn Conference Group's records consist of files relating to its biannual
meetings, 1951-1971 (4 bound volumes), research files (6 bound volumes) arranged in
alphabetical order by corporate name, and correspondence between Conference Group
participants on the Group's activities (4 volumes).
The meeting files consist of agenda, minutes, reports, summaries of accomplishments,
and supporting correspondence. Research activities regarding particular aspects of
labor-management relations and personnel management, including methods of predicting
and measuring leadership abilities, techniques for the management and development
of employees, performance appraisal, and the evaluation of future trends in personnel
management, especially union activities and trends in benefits, are discussed both
at the meeting and in subsequent correspondence.
The corporate research project files contain outlines and reports of then current
industrial relations projects with supporting documentation. Included are studies
on compensation (wages and hours), benefit plans, internal management planning, employee
selection, employee development, employee testing, safety education and programs,
labor-management relations, and trends in collective bargaining, among other issues.
Compilation of materials regarding the biannual Dearborn Conference Meetings, including
agenda, minutes, reports, correspondence, memoranda, notes and summaries.
The Dearborn Conference Group's records consist of files relating to its biannual
meetings, 1951-1971 (4 bound volumes), research files (6 bound volumes) arranged in
alphabetical order by corporate name, and correspondence between Conference Group
participants on the Group's activities (4 volumes).
The meeting files consist of agenda, minutes, reports, summaries of accomplishments,
and supporting correspondence. Research activities regarding particular aspects of
labor-management relations and personnel management, including methods of predicting
and measuring leadership abilities, techniques for the management and development
of employees, performance appraisal, and the evaluation of future trends in personnel
management, especially union activities and trends in benefits, are discussed both
at the meeting and in subsequent correspondence.
The corporate research project files contain outlines and reports of then current
industrial relations projects with supporting documentation. Included are studies
on compensation (wages and hours), benefit plans, internal management planning, employee
selection, employee development, employee testing, safety education and programs,
labor-management relations, and trends in collective bargaining, among other issues.
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference
archivist for access to these materials.
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and
Procedures for Document Use.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Dearborn Group Records #5569. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and
Archives, Cornell University Library.
Related Collections: 5634: Dearborn Group Additional Records
Names:
Dearborn Conference Group
Subjects:
Automobile industry workers -- United States
Chemical workers -- United States
Collective bargaining -- Automobile industry -- United States
Collective bargaining -- Chemical industry -- United States
Collective bargaining -- Paper industry -- United States
Collective bargaining -- Petroleum industry -- United States
Collective bargaining -- Steel industry -- United States
Collective bargaining -- Telecommunication -- United States
Collective bargaining -- Textile industry -- United States
Employee selection -- United States
Employee training directors -- United States
Executives -- Training of -- United States
Food industry -- Employees -- United States
Industrial relations -- Research -- United States
Job evaluation -- United States
Paper industry workers -- United States
Employees -- Rating of
Personnel directors
Personnel management -- United States
Personnel management -- Research
Petroleum chemicals industry -- Industrial relations -- United States
Petroleum industry -- Employees -- United States
Retail trade -- Employees -- United States
Safety education, Industrial
Steel industry and trade -- Employees -- United States
Telecommunication -- Employees -- United States
Textile industry -- Employees -- United States
Wages -- United States
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 |
"Selectied Highlights from Dearborn's First Decade, 1951-1959." by Robert Barmein;
"Dearborn Conference File Summary of Contents." June, 1955; "Dearborn Conference."
Reports, Statements, and Surveys.
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Dearborn Conference File Summary
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1951-1954 |
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Scope and Contents
Large booklet containing appendices
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Selected Highlights from Dearborn Group's First Decade
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1951-1959 |
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Scope and Contents
"Confidential" summaries by date; 5/21/1951 - 10/22- 3/1959
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Dearborn Conference Group
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1955 |
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Scope and Contents
"Management Development Objectives" March 8 1955
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| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
"Dearborn Conference"
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1951-1963 |
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Scope and Contents
Research and Information
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
"Dearborn Conference"
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1951-1957 |
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Scope and Contents
Includes biographies, etc.
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| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
"Dearborn Conference"
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1952-1963 |
| Box 2 |
"Dearborn Conference." Reports, Statements, and Surveys, AT&T- U.S. Rubber.
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| Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Dearborn Conference
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1951-1962 |
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Scope and Contents
Contains highly detailed information on companies
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| Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Dearborn Group
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1951-1972 |
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Scope and Contents
Contains highly detailed information on companies
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| Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Dearborn Group
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1952-1959 |
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Scope and Contents
Contains highly detailed information on companies
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| Box 3 |
"Dearborn Conference." Reports, Statements, and Surveys, AT&T- U.S. Rubber; "Dearborn
Conference Meetings." 1951-1973.
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| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Dearborn Conference Meetings
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1951-1952 |
| Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Dearborn Conference Meetings
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1955-1965 |
| Box 3 | Folder 3 |
Dearborn Conference Meetings
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1953-1954 |
| Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Dearborn Conference
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1951-1971 |
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Scope and Contents
Some papers labeled "Confidential"
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| Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Dearborn Conference
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1952-1965 |
| Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Dearborn Conference
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1968 |
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Scope and Contents
Contains a study on employees by race and ethnicity
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| Box 4 |
"Dearborn Conference Meetings." 1951-1973; "Dearborn Conference- General Correspondence
and Exchange. American Cork- Socony Vacuum.".
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| Box 4 | Folder 1 |
Dearborn Conference Meetings
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1971-1973 |
| Box 4 | Folder 2 |
Dearborn Conference Meetings
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1966-1970 |
| Box 4 | Folder 3 |
Dearborn Conference Meetings
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1971 |
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Scope and Contents
November 11-12, 1971
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| Box 4 | Folder 4 |
Dearborn Conference Meetings
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1966-1970 |
| Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Industry and Employee Relations Research
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1951-1959 |
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Scope and Contents
5/21/1951 - 10/22-23/1959; "Confidential"
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| Box 4 | Folder 6 |
Dearborn Conference, Correspondence and Exchange
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1951-1956 |
| Box 4 | Folder 7 |
Correspondence and Exchange, General.
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1951-1957 |
| Box 4 | Folder 8 |
Dearborn Conference, Correspondence and Exchange
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1954-1957 |