Solomon Barkin Papers, 1930-1989 :Finding Aid

Finding Aid

Finding aid prepared by .

Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

2003

Collection Overview

Creator:

Barkin, Solomon, 1902-

Title:

Solomon Barkin Papers

Dates:

1930-1989

Abstract:

Economist, writer, labor activist, union director, and Professor of Economics and Research Associate of the Labor Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Contains biographical and bibliographical materials, including clippings, news releases, and photographs; correspondence, published and unpublished writings, including lectures, pamphlets, booklets, articles, reports, reprints, and transcripts of hearings; and typewritten manuscripts, edited works, bound reports and proceedings, and one audiotape.

Extent:

24 boxes(11 linear ft.)

Language:

English and French

Identification:

MS 217

Acquired from Solomon Barkin.

Processed by SCUA staff.

Preferred Citation

Cite as: Solomon Barkin Papers (MS 217). Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

The collection is open for research.

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Biographical Note

Solomon Barkin was born in New York City in 1902. He received his bachelor's degree from the College of the City of New York (CCNY) in 1928, and went on to receive his master's degree in economics from Columbia University the following year. He was an instructor at CCNY from 1928 to 1931. Among the posts he held in the 1930s were the Assistant Director of Research for the New York State Commission on Old Age Security, and the Assistant Director of the Labor Advisory Board of the National Recovery Administration. From 1937 to 1963, Barkin served as Director of Research for the Textile Workers Organizing Committee (TWOC), and its successor, the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA). In 1963, Barkin left to become deputy to the director and head of the Social Affairs Division, Manpower and Social Affairs Directorate, of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), in Paris. He returned to the United States in 1968, to join the faculty of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as Professor of Economics and Research Associate of the Labor Center. He retired in 1978.

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Scope and Contents of the Collection

Biographical and bibliographical materials, including clippings, news releases, and photographs; correspondence, and published and unpublished writings, which comprise the bulk of the collection. Publications authored by Barkin cover the period 1930 to 1988, and include lectures, pamphlets, booklets, articles, reports, reprints, and transcripts of hearings. Also included, individually, are typewritten manuscripts, edited works, bound reports and proceedings, and one audiotape.

Papers are organized into three series, and arranged chronologically within each series, including Biographical/Bibliographical, Correspondence (1936, 1966-1988), and Publications (1930-1988).

An item listing for Barkin's published and unpublished writings can be found in the Appendix.

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Search Terms

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Organization of the Collection

This collection is organized into three series:

Series 1. Biographical and Bibliographical

Series 2. Correspondence, 1936, 1966-1988

Series 3. Publications, 1930-1988

Arrangement of the Collection

Organized into three series, arranged chronologically within each series.

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Series 1. Bibliographical and Biographical

Series 2. Correspondence 1936, 1966-1988

Series 3. Publications 1930-1988

Box

2

Bound Notebook 1930-1944

Old Age Security: Report of New York Commission 1930

The Older Worker in Industry: -Joint Legislative Committee on Unemployment, State of New York 1933

Labor Advisory Board, Bulletins on Labor Problems 1933-1935

Box

3

Wages and Hours in American Industry: NRS Source Material, Volumes I and II of III 1936

Bound Notebook 1936-1937

"Collective Bargaining and Section 7(b) of NIRP in Problems of Organized Labor, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 184, March 1936

Box

4

The Labor Program Under the NIRA: Development, Contents, Operation, and Effect 1937

Textile Workers' Organizing Committee, Weekly Newsletter for Regional Directors 1937-1938

Vocational-Technical Training for Industrial Occupations: Report of the Consulting-Committee on Vocational-Technical Training Appointed by the US Commissioner of Education 1944

Box

5

Statement of TWUA re Cotton-Rayon Industry to the National War Labor Board 1944

Towards Fairer Federal Labor Standards 1948

Box

6

Bound Notebooks 1945-1949

Box

7

Bound Notebooks 1950-1951

Box

8

Bound Notebooks 1952-1953

Box

9

Bound Notebooks 1954-1955

Box

10

Bound Notebooks 1956-1957

Box

11

Bound Notebooks 1958

Report on Naugatuck Economic Zone 1958

Box

12

Bound Notebooks 1959

Box

13

Bound Notebooks 1960

Box

14

Bound Notebooks 1961

Box

15

Clippings about the Decline of the Labor Movement 1961-1962

"The Changing Workforce: Labor's Problems" in American Enterprise: The Next Ten Years, Martin R. Gainsbrugh, ed.

Reappraisal of Business Taxation Symposium, Tax Institute 1962

Current Needs in Research Relevant to the Interests of the US Textile Industry, National Academy of Sciences 1962

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16

Bound Notebooks 1962

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17

Bound Notebooks 1963-1964

Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting, Industrial Research Association December 28 and 29, 1964

The Crisis in the American Trade-Union Movement, The Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science, November 1963

Automation und technischer Fortschritt in Deutschland und den USA 1963

Additional materials 1963-1964

Box

17A

Bound Notebook 1965

Box

18

Bound Notebook 1966

Management and Growth, Proceedings 14th CIOS International Management Congress, Rotterdam 1966

Industrial Society and Rehabilitation--Problems and Solutions, ISRD, Proceedings of the Tenth World Congress, Wiesbaden 1966

Employment Problems of Automation and Advanced Technology: An International Perspective, Proceedings of a Conference held at Geneva by the International Inst. for Labour Studies, 1964, ed. Jack Stieber, Macmillan and St. Martins Press 1966

Additional materials 1966

Box

19

Various publications 1967

Box

20

Various publications 1968-1969

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21

Various publications 1970-1973

Box

22

Various publications 1974-1977

Box

23

Various publications 1978-1988

Bibliography

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