Be ye stedfast : Frances Perkins to mid-life, 1995.

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Be ye stedfast : Frances Perkins to mid-life, 1995.

Bound typescript of an unfinished biography of Frances Perkins.

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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...

Wandersee, Winifred D.

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A professor of history at Hartwick College in Oneonta, N.Y., Wandersee was the author of Women's Work and Family Values, 1920-1940 (1981) and On the Move: American Women in the 1970s (1988). She began this biography of Frances Perkins in 1989 but was unable to finish it before her death from cancer in 1994. From the description of Be ye stedfast : Frances Perkins to mid-life, 1995. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008911 ...