DOME COLLECTIONS - DEWEY

 

IR Pamphlet Collection

Content

The collection addresses many facets of the "world of work":  labor-management relations, labor and public policy, labor economics, labor law, unions, human resource management, industrial psychology and sociology, organizational behavior, social insurance, and labor in foreign countries. 

Size

About 30,000 items

Age

Early 1900s-1970s

Source

Dewey Mezzanine includes:
• Pamphlets from labor unions, trade and professional associations, and other organizations
• Academic research reports and working papers
• Corporate publications and manuals on topics such as personnel policies, benefits programs, and employee training
• Documents from U.S. federal agencies, the U.S. Congress, state and county governments, foreign governments, and international intergovernmental organizations
• Directories
• Organization annual reports
• Serials (such as convention proceedings and organization annual reports)
• Bibliographies on specific topics
• Speeches
• Union contracts

Rights

There is some pre-1923 material as well as other types of material which may not be protected by copyright.

Anticipated Audience

Business historians, general historians, IR scholars

Benefits

The collection was built from 1936 to the early 1990s to support the research of the Sloan School Industrial Relations Section (now the Institute for Work and Employment Research).  The aim was to provide "comprehensive coverage for the core areas of labor/management relations."  The most valuable part of the collection is the "L" collection of material added from the 1930s through 1963.  This collection's broad range of topics (including the union and civil rights movements, women in the labor force, and wartime labor issues) and diversity of material types make this a collection of potentially high value and interest to researchers. 

Format Risk

Varies

Format

It is almost exclusively a print collection. The materials varies from good to poor condition.

Metadata

The card catalog, maintained from 1936 to 1993. Many of the cards carry unique annotations, including brief abstracts of journal articles.  This original intellectual content is a significant feature of the catalog. The cards were convereted into MARC records and loaded into ALEPH in 2007.

Funding

None at present. Possible donor/grant opportunity

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