Industrial conferences, 1919-1930
Scope and Contents
Eastern region industrial conference materials including schedules of events, talks, and programs, member statistics and demographics, statements from workers, discussion questions regarding race, employment, working conditions, civil liberties, and other matters, newsletters summarizing the conference, personal accounts from workers, and more. In addition, conference materials may include camp dramas and songs, administrative and managerial materials, summaries of lectures given, lists of committees and members, and analyses of club programs and methods.
Dates of Materials
- Creation: 1919-1930
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
335 frames (1 partial reel)
Subject
- YWCA of the U.S.A.. Industrial Department (Organization)
Genre / Form
- Pamphlets
- correspondence
- correspondence
- minutes (administrative records)
- programs (documents)
- reports
- reports
Geographic
Topical
- African American women -- Employment
- Coal mines and mining
- Employees -- Training of
- Factories
- Foreign workers
- Hours of labor
- Household employees
- Industrialization
- Labor laws and legislation
- Labor unions
- Leadership in women
- Nonprofit organizations -- Administration
- Nonprofit organizations -- Management
- Social action
- Wages -- Women
- Women -- Employment
- Women -- Political activity
- Women in the labor movement
- Work environment
Repository Details
Part of the Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History Repository