Solomon Barkin Papers 1930-1989

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Solomon Barkin Papers 1930-1989

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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and bibliographical materials, including clippings, news releases, and photographs; correspondence, published and unpublished writings, including lectures, pamphlets, booklets, articles, reports, reprints, and transcripts of hearings; and typewritten manuscripts, edited works, bound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.

24 boxes; (11 linear ft.)

eng,

fre,

Special Collections and University Archives, UMass Amherst Libraries

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Barkin, Solomon

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Textile Workers Organizing Committee

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Textile Workers' Union of America

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Located in Boston, the TWUA began in 1937 as the Textile Workers' Organizing Committee of the CIO. By 1939, its success in organizing workers led to its becoming an independent CIO-affiliated union. One of the first victories was a contract with the American Woolen Co. in Lawrence, Mass. By 1942, mills in a number of New England cities were unionized. After World War II, the TWUA faced serious problems from national anti-labor legislation such as the Taft-Hartley Act, and the slump in the textil...

Barkin, Solomon, 1902-

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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 Recover...