Industrial, 1918-1931
Scope and Contents
Articles, budgets and bulletins concerning YWCA of the U.S.A. work with women and girls employed in industry. Articles are clippings or entire articles relating to the industrial work with employed women and their families. Industrial budgets materials concern fair wages and cost of living for employed women and may include sample budgets for fair standards of living, discussion of current wages and living standards in the United States and around the world, working conditions of various employments, and bibliographies. The "Industrial Bulletin" is a periodic publication from the industrial department of the YWCA of the U.S.A. to YWCA industrial secretaries. Bulletins discuss labor and industry issues faced by employed women including fair wages, union organization, working conditions and treatment, workers education, methods of reaching employed women, policy agendas, employment of young women, foreign laborers, and other topics.
Dates of Materials
- Creation: 1918-1931
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
639 frames (1 partial reel)
Subject
- YWCA of the U.S.A.. Industrial Department (Organization)
Genre / Form
Topical
- Child labor
- Coal mines and mining
- Cost and standard of living
- Economic security
- Employees -- Training of
- Foreign workers
- Hours of labor
- Household employees
- Industrial relations
- Labor laws and legislation
- Labor unions
- Minimum wage -- Law and legislation
- Wages -- Women
- Women -- Employment
- Women -- Political activity
- Women foreign workers
- Women foreign workers
- Women in the labor movement
- Work environment
Repository Details
Part of the Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History Repository