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Women -- Employment -- United States

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Chicago & Northwestern Transportation Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: 5533
Abstract Collection includes correspondence concerning grievance claims and work rules; agreements with major railroad unions; statistics on workers' compensation and hours; miscellaneous legal documents concerning disputes brought before federal boards; and circulars from industry conferences, concerning company-labor relations. Also includes documentation of the Chicago and North Westerns' merger with the Chicago Great Western Railway. Select information from predecessor carriers is also found in...
Dates: 1907-1971

Fannia M. Cohn papers

 Collection
Identifier: 5998 mf
Abstract

Collection consists of correspondence, writings, working papers for seminars and lecture programs, photographs, personal ephemera, and printed matter.

Dates: 1914-1962.

National Consumers League Records

 Collection
Identifier: 5235
Abstract

Records document the League's research and lobbying activities for federal and state legislation and various social action programs. Consist of routine business records, published and unpublished reports, correspondence, and research documents pertaining to equal pay, equal rights, minimum wage, child labor, women workers, migrant workers, and fair labor standards.

Dates: 1897-1959

National Women's Trade Union League of America Records on Microfilm

 Collection
Identifier: 5709 mf
Abstract

These records include correspondence, reports, speeches, notes, printed matter, minutes of meetings, proceedings of the League and of the International Congress of Working Women, biographical material on the League's officers, and correspondence between the National League and its local branches. Major issues covered include the eight-hour day, minimum wage, establishment of sanitary work areas, federal aid to education, civil rights, price controls and social security.

Dates: 1903-1950

New York State Department of Labor Minimum Wage Board Records

 Collection
Identifier: 5381
Abstract

Minutes and reports of New York State Minimum Wage Boards for the industries of hotels, restaurants, retail trade, laundry and cleaning service, amusement and leisure, confectionery and beauty service.

Dates: 1935-1950

New York State Department of Labor Minimum Wage Board Records on Microfilm

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Identifier: 5381 mf
Abstract

Minutes of the public hearings of the New York State Minimum Wage Boards.

Dates: 1935-1950

William Goff Caples Speeches

 Collection
Identifier: 5250
Abstract

Consists chiefly of copies of speeches made by Caples (few originals, few reprints) before workingmen's associations, management conferences, civic and social groups, and educational institutes in his capacity as an Inland Steel Company executive.

Dates: 1950-1968

Women's Trade Union League Papers on Microfilm

 Collection
Identifier: 5690 mf
Abstract

Consists of microfilm copies of the papers of the National and New York Women's Trade Union Leagues and the papers of several leaders within those leagues.

Dates: 0000-2999