Committee on Women Workers and World Emergency Fund Committee minutes, 1940-1949
Scope and Contents
Minutes of the YWCA of the U.S.A. Committee on Women Workers and World Emergency Fund Committee. The Committee on Women Workers meets to discuss issues concerning labor practices that have arisen due to war work demands during World War II and the needs of women war workers. The World Emergency Fund Committee is responsible for the material and financial support for war relief, managing the relief fund, creating policy concerning the use of the fund and working with local and regional associations on soliciting funds.
Dates of Materials
- Creation: 1940-1949
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for use without restriction beyond the standard terms and conditions of Smith College Special Collections.
However, by agreement with the YWCA of the U.S.A., microdexes known to contain financial records or personal health information (usually on job applications) were not digitized and/or not published in our online repository as part of the CLIR Digitizing Hidden Collections grant. These microdexes may still be accessed on the original microfilm, and digital files may be made available to individual researchers upon request.
Extent
274 frames (1 partial reel)
Genre / Form
Topical
- Fund raising
- Fund raising
- Leadership in women
- Nonprofit organizations -- Finance
- Nonprofit organizations -- Management
- Reconstruction (1939-1951)
- Sex Discrimination in employment
- War relief
- Women -- Employment
- Women -- International cooperation
- Women -- International cooperation
- Women -- International cooperation
- Women in the labor movement
- World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- Young Women's Christian associations
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects
Repository Details
Part of the Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History Repository