Frances Perkins. Interviews.

Beyer, Clara Mortenson, 1892-1990

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Clara Mortenson Beyer was a pioneer in labor economics and workers rights. She worked under Frances Perkins at the United States Department of Labor during the New Deal era, and was instrumental in implementing minimum wage legislation via the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Clara Mortenson Beyer was born on April 13, 1892 in Lake County, California. She was the sixth child of nine. Her parents were Danish immigrants, Mary Frederickson and Morten Mortenson. Morten Mortenson was a carpenter ...

Perkins, Frances, 1880-1965

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Frances Perkins (born Fannie Coralie Perkins; April 10, 1880 – May 14, 1965) was an American sociologist and workers-rights advocate who served as the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet. As a loyal supporter of her friend, Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR), she helped pull the labor movement into the New Deal coalition. She and Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes were the only original members of the Rooseve...

Anderson, James R.

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Dodson, James E. (James Edward), 1904-

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Lubin, Isador, 1896-1978

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Statistician, industrial economist. From the description of Reminiscences of Isador Lubin : oral history, 1957. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309726824 From the description of Reminiscences of Isador Lubin : oral history, 1965. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122512990 Economist, statistician, educator, government official. Lubin studied with Thorstein Veblen. ...

Reilly, Gerard D. (Gerard Denis), 1906-1995

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