Social workers

Employment collection

Collection

Identifier: SSC-MS-00456

Abstract Primarily printed materials and books, plus some unpublished writings, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera, pertaining to employment issues and specific occupations of women primarily in the U.S. and England. Topics include affirmative action, sex discrimination, labor organizing, child labor, immigrant workers, women in industry, jury duty, wartime work, Social Security, and protective legislation. Over eighty occupations represented include: law, academics, social work, sciences,...

Dates of Materials: 1817 - 2000; Majority of material found within 1920-1976

Found in: Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History

Social work, circa 1925-1943

File — Box 2: Series 2; Series 3 [Barcode: 310183630156023], Reel: 130, microdex: 2

Scope and Contents Documents concerning social work in the YWCA of the U.S.A., its role, functions, methods and relationship to other types of work. Case work materials discuss the relationship of case work to group work in the YWCA of the U.S.A., methods of conducting casework, forms for tracking work and suggestions for methods. In addition to individual and groups work with the problems of the girls in clubs, social work in the YWCA of the U.S.A. takes on larger issues affecting the country including...

Dates of Materials: circa 1925-1943