Industrial conferences, 1922-1950
Scope and Contents
Minutes and reports from weekend midwinter industrial conferences for the central and eastern regions arranged by region then year. Materials may provide attendance, committee, and demographic information, lists of resources to consult, summaries of discussion groups and lectures, resolutions and recommendations, devotions, and other activities. Discussion groups concern the work during World War II, the economic environments of the times, discrimination in and out of the workplace, unionization and organization of labor movements, education opportunities for working girls, issues faced by household employees, and other matters.
Dates of Materials
- 1922-1950
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
619 frames (1 partial reel)
- African American women -- Employment
- Civil rights
- Eastern United States, United States
- Employees -- Training of
- Hours of labor
- Labor laws and legislation
- Labor unions
- Leadership in women
- Midwest, United States
- Nonprofit organizations -- Administration
- Nonprofit organizations -- Management
- Pamphlets
- Race relations
- Social action
- Wages -- Women
- Women -- Employment
- Women -- Political activity
- Women in the labor movement
- Work environment
- correspondence
- minutes (administrative records)
- reports
Repository Details
Part of the Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History Repository
