Records, 1941-2001 (bulk, 1968-1988).

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Records, 1941-2001 (bulk, 1968-1988).

The records consist of surveys, notes, interviews and background materials for the studies produced by the Industrial Research Unit and its predecessor from 1941 to 1990 and collected and maintained by Herbert R. Northrup. The bulk of the files are from the 1970s and 1980s, but there are also a few files from the Center for Human Resources and its first director, Peter Cappelli. Fininshed studies and publications of the Unit are catalogued in the Imprints Dept. The OSHA files deal with the impact of chemical exposure in the aerospace and chemical industries, and of noise and dust exposure in the textile industry. Series V consists of questionnaires for a 1991 survey conducted for the National Association of Manufacturers on the shortage of skilled workers, including questions on training, retraining, hiring practices, turnover rate and orientaion practices.

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NCR Corporation

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Control Data Corporation

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Bituminous Coal Operators' Association

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Center to Protect Workers' Rights (U.S.)

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Tandy Corporation

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Texas instruments incorporated

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Aerospace Industries Association of America

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Bethlehem Steel Corporation

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Westvaco Corporation

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Caterpillar Tractor Company

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Bakery, Confectionary and Tobacco Workers International Union.

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General Dynamics Corporation

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Burroughs Corporation

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United Engineers & Constructors (U.S.)

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Minnesota mining and manufacturing company

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Contractors Mutual Association

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United Glass and Ceramic Workers of North America

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Wang Laboratories, Inc.

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Rockewell International Corporation.

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International Harvester company

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ConAgra, inc.

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Coleco Industries, Inc.

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Mobil Corporation

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Mallinckrodt, Inc. (St. Louis, Mo.).

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Cessna Aircraft Company

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Manufacturer of private aircraft founded in 1911 in Wichita, Kan. From the description of Cessna Aircraft Company Spring Training play book, circa 1972. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 645061026 The Cessna Aircraft Company is a manufacturer of private aircraft founded in 1911 in Wichita, Kansas From the guide to the Cessna Aircraft Company Spring Training Play Book, probably 1972, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke Univer...

Crown Zellerbach Corporation

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The Crown Zellerbach Corporation was formed in 1928 by the merger of the Zellerbach Paper Company and Crown Willamette Paper Company, both of which had been formed by the mergers of several other companies and their predecessors. In addition, various companies and their subsidiaries were purchased or formed after the 1928 merger, culminating with the acquisition of Crown Zellerbach Corporation by the James River Corporation in 1985. From the description of Crown Zellerbach Corporatio...

Sterling Drug

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Associated General Contractors of America

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The Associated General Contractors of America was founded in 1918 as a trade organization dedicated furthering the interests of the construction industry, and maintaining dialogue between contractors, property owners, and government. From the description of Associated General Contractors of America ledger, 1945-1955. (California State Library). WorldCat record id: 773723382 ...

Burlington Industries, Inc.

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Burlington Industries, Inc., founded by James Spencer Love (1896-1962), opened its first cotton manufacturing plant in 1924 in Burlington, N.C., with 200 employees. (An early name was Burlington Mills Corporation; the name was changed to Burlington Industries, Inc. in 1955.) The company grew quickly by switching to rayon manufacturing. During the 1920s and 1930s, Burlington added plants, a New York City sales office, and, in 1935, moved its corporate headquarters from Burlington to Greensboro, N...

Stauffer Chemical Company

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Bell Helicopter Company

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FMC Corporation

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Chevron chemical company

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Scott Paper Company

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The Scott Paper Company was incorporated in Pennsylvania on December 21, 1905, as successor to the Scott Paper Company, Ltd., organized in October 1879. The company pioneered the manufacture and marketing of toilet paper and paper towels. The company was founded in Philadelphia by the brothers Clarence and E. Irwin Scott as a general wholesale jobbing business in coarse paper products such as wrapping paper and paper bags. The company soon carved out a niche cutting and ...

B.F. Goodrich Company

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Akron, OH. From the description of Trade catalogs, ca.1915. (College of Physicians of Philadelphia). WorldCat record id: 122579155 The B.F. Goodrich Company began in 1870. Originally called Goodrich, Tew and Company, the organization was founded by Benjamin Franklin Goodrich, Harvey W. Tew, Henry S. Sanderson, Robert Newland, and David N. Marvin. Their partnership was intended to make rubber and because of their choice of location in Akron, Goodrich, Tew and Company (GTC) be...

National Electric Reliability Council

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Goodyear tire and rubber company

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Goodyear put pneumatic tires on 1917 Packard trucks for the first interstate trucking run between its Akron tire factory and Boston to prove that air-filled tires could make long-haul trucking possible. From the description of Wingfoot Express press kit, [ca. 1984-1987]. (Ohio Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 41001463 ...

Union Carbide Corporation

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Koppers Company

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Koppers is a global, diversified manufacturing company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The original Koppers Company was founded by Dr. Heinrich Koppers, a young German engineer who developed a new type of coke oven that could economically recover the byproduct chemicals of the coal-cooking process. Koppers came to the United States and built his first ovens in 1907 in Joliet, Illinois. The company was incorporated in Chicago in 1912 before establishing its headquarters in Pittsburgh in 1914. ...

American Cyanamid Company

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NY. From the description of Folic acid and vitamin B-12. Their interrelationships. Technical bulletin no. 1, 1954. (College of Physicians of Philadelphia). WorldCat record id: 122632877 ...

Glass, Pottery, Plastic and Allied Workers International Union.

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Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A.

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Hewlett-Packard Company.

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Founded 1939. Manufacturer of computer components, peripherals, and software; semiconductors; laboratory equipment; measuring devices. From the description of Archives. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83383181 Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard were friends and fellow graduates of Stanford University. Following their graduation from Stanford, the two founded the electronics firm Hewlett-Packard Company in 1938. Their first product was the resistance-capacity audio oscillator (HP 2...

Allied Chemical Corporation

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Hitachi America

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Dow chemical company

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Beutel was the head of the Texas Division in the 1940s for Dow Chemical Company. (This information is from the donor form.) From the description of Plat of Mount Pleasant [Mich.] property, Dow Chemical Company, showing well location, 1918. (Clarke Historical Library). WorldCat record id: 256867304 Dow Chemical Company was founded by Herbert H. Dow in 1897. Headquartered in Midland, Michigan, the company was initially founded upon a method invented by Dow for extracting bromi...

BSAF Aktiengesellschaft.

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Hooker Chemical Corporation

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United States. Occupational Safety and Health Review Committee.

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Beech Aircraft Corporation

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United States. Occupational Safety and Health Administration

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These records are transcripts of the 1994-1995 public hearing on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) proposed standard for indoor air quality. The hearings were presided over by Judge John Vittone of the Department of Labor. The proposed regulations included rules affecting environmental tobacco smoke. Participants in the hearings included representatives from OSHA, the tobacco industry, small businesses, and trade unions as well as health professi...

United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics

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The need for the collection of labor statistics was recognized by Congress in 1884 when it established the Bureau of Labor in the Department of the Interior. In 1913 the Bureau was transferred to the newly created Department of Labor under the title Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Commissioner is nominated by the President of the United States. He has advisory committees from labor and management to provide him with practical advice in the preparation and publication of statistics t...

Union Oil Company of California

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Olin Corporation

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Johnson & Johnson.

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General Semiconductor Industries, inc.

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Lockheed-California Company

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Northrup, Herbert Roof 1918-

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Labor economist; emeritus professor of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. From the description of Herbert R. Northup collection of Lemuel R. Boulware research materials, 1904-1990. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155862671 ...

Sun Company

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The Sun Company, first incorporated under the laws of New Jersey on May 2, 1901, and successor to the Sun Oil Company (Ohio) formed in 1890, is an international energy company with oil, gas and coal reserves in 24 states, Canada, the British North Sea and Venezuela. From the description of Corporate records, 1890-1984. (Hagley Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 86119238 The Sun Company, first incorporated under the laws of New Jersey on May 2, 1901, and successor to ...

Monsanto Company

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Monsanto Chemical Works of Saint Louis (Missouri) was founded in 1901 by John Queeny and named for his wife, Olga Monsanto. The company's first commercially successful product was saccharin followed shortly thereafter by refined caffeine, vanillin, and aspirin. Within thirty years, largely under the influence of Queeny's son Edgar, Monsanto Chemical Works expanded its business and product portfolio to include a number of manufacturing facilities in both the United States and abroad. In 1933, the...

Cannon Mills Company

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Wharton School. Center for Human Resources

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Bank of America

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Leeds & Northrup Company.

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TRW Inc.

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Established in 1900, in Cleveland, Ohio, as the Cleveland Cap Screw Co. It began producing automotive parts and underwent several reorganizations, becoming the Electric Welding Products Co. (1908), the Steel Products Co. (1915), and Thompson Products Inc. (1926). It expanded to include branch plants and the production of aircraft parts, and fostered a company union, the Automotive and Aircraft Workers Alliance (later the Aircraft Workers Alliance). It grew during World War II due to defense cont...

PUSH for Excellence Incorporated (Chicago, Ill.)

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Geo. A. Hormel & Company

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Carborundum Company (Niagara Falls, N.Y.)

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Sperry Corporation

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The Sperry Rand Corporation was incorporated under the laws of Delaware on June 30, 1955, as a merger of Remington Rand, Inc., and The Sperry Corporation. Sperry Rand was renamed the Sperry Corporation on Aug. 1, 1979. On September 16, 1986 Sperry was merged into the Burroughs Corporation. Burroughs, the surviving corporate entity, was renamed the Unisys Corporation. The firm was a major manufacturer of office machines, computers, electric appliances, feedback control systems and aerospace compo...

Microsoft Corporation.

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United States. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

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Cray Research, Inc.

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Wharton School. Industrial Research Dept.

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Occidental Petroleum Corporation

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Hercules Incorporated

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The Hercules Powder Company was incorporated on October 17, 1912, as part of the government-ordered antitrust breakup of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Initially inheriting a portion of Dupont's explosives business, Hercules gradually evolved into a diversified chemical company and was renamed Hercules Incorporated on April 29, 1966. From the description of Personnel records, 1914-1990. (Hagley Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122397328 ...

Business Roundtable

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Morgan guaranty trust company of New York

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