Proceedings, minutes, reports, and correspondence concerning southern region industrial conferences. Materials are arranged by year. Conference materials provide an overview of industrial club administration and organization for the conference year as well as reports on methods and programming employed to achieve club goals. Administrative information may include conference planning as well as lists of leaders speakers and committee members. Often, analysis is given as to the success of the conference and it's activities. In addition, conference materials may provide summaries of lectures, devotions, worship services, and discussions from the conferences that highlight the industrial and labor issues faced by women and girls at the time. Much of the discussion involves the meaning of democracy, Fascism, and the political environment in Europe. Also discussed, is the treatment of and prejudices against African Americans both in and outside of the workplace. In addition, material can be found on workers education, civil liberties, political activism, working conditions, unionization, and the economic conditions of the Depression.
Industrial conferences
1937-1939
Hours of labor
Labor unions
Leadership in women
Nonprofit organizations
Management
Social action
Wages
Women
Women in the labor movement
Women
Employment
Women
Political activity
Labor laws and legislation
Employees
Training of
Work environment
Race relations
African American women
Employment
Civil rights
Depressions
World War, 1939-1945
Nonprofit organizations
Administration
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Industrial conferences, Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History, MS 00324, Smith College Special Collections, Northampton, Massachusetts.
Box 2: Series 2; Series 3, Reel 103
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