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 Collection Overview Barkin, Solomon, 1902- Solomon Barkin Papers 1930-1989 MS 217 24 boxes (11 linear ft.) Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst 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and bibliographical materials, including clippings, news releases, and photographs; correspondence, published and unpublished writings, including lectures, pamphlets, booklets, articles, reports, reprints, and transcripts of hearings; and typewritten manuscripts, edited works, bound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. English and French 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.

 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and bibliographical materials, including clippings, news releases, and photographs; correspondence, and published and unpublished writings, which comprise the bulk of the collection.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.

 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.

The collection is open for research.

 Preferred Citation

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

Acquired from Solomon Barkin.

Bibliography

An item listing for Barkin's published and unpublished writings can be found in the Appendix.

Processed by SCUA staff.

 Search Terms Barkin, Solomon. Textile Workers Union of America. Textile Workers Organizing Committee. Labor unions--Massachusetts. Textile industry--History. Series 1. Bibliographical and Biographical Series 2. Correspondence1936, 1966-1988 Series 3. Publications1930-1988

See Appendix for item list of materials in bound notebooks.

 2 Bound Notebook 1930-1944 2 Old Age Security: Report of New York Commission 1930 2 The Older Worker in Industry: -Joint Legislative Committee on Unemployment, State of New York 1933 2 Labor Advisory Board, Bulletins on Labor Problems 1933-1935 3 Wages and Hours in American Industry: NRS Source Material, Volumes I and II of III 1936 3 Bound Notebook 1936-1937 3 "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 4 The Labor Program Under the NIRA: Development, Contents, Operation, and Effect 1937 4 Textile Workers' Organizing Committee, Weekly Newsletter for Regional Directors 1937-1938 4 Vocational-Technical Training for Industrial Occupations: Report of the Consulting-Committee on Vocational-Technical Training Appointed by the US Commissioner of Education 1944 5 Statement of TWUA re Cotton-Rayon Industry to the National War Labor Board 1944 5 Towards Fairer Federal Labor Standards 1948 6 Bound Notebooks 1945-1949 7 Bound Notebooks 1950-1951 8 Bound Notebooks 1952-1953 9 Bound Notebooks 1954-1955 10 Bound Notebooks 1956-1957 11 Bound Notebooks 1958 11 Report on Naugatuck Economic Zone 1958 12 Bound Notebooks 1959 13 Bound Notebooks 1960 14 Bound Notebooks 1961 15 Clippings about the Decline of the Labor Movement 1961-1962 15 "The Changing Workforce: Labor's Problems" in American Enterprise: The Next Ten Years, Martin R. Gainsbrugh, ed. 15 Reappraisal of Business Taxation Symposium, Tax Institute 1962 15 Current Needs in Research Relevant to the Interests of the US Textile Industry, National Academy of Sciences 1962 16 Bound Notebooks 1962 17 Bound Notebooks 1963-1964 17 Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting, Industrial Research Association December 28 and 29, 1964 17 The Crisis in the American Trade-Union Movement, The Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science, November 1963 17 Automation und technischer Fortschritt in Deutschland und den USA 1963 17 Additional materials 1963-1964 17A Bound Notebook 1965 18 Bound Notebook 1966 18 Management and Growth, Proceedings 14th CIOS International Management Congress, Rotterdam 1966 18 Industrial Society and Rehabilitation--Problems and Solutions, ISRD, Proceedings of the Tenth World Congress, Wiesbaden 1966 18 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 18 Additional materials 1966 19 Various publications 1967 20 Various publications 1968-1969 21 Various publications 1970-1973 22 Various publications 1974-1977 23 Various publications 1978-1988