Agnes Nestor papers, 1896-1954.

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Agnes Nestor papers, 1896-1954.

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Correspondence, reports, pamphlets, clippings, passports, etc., arranged chronologically, and manuscript autobiography of Agnes Nestor, primarily relating to her career as a labor union leader in Chicago and official of the International Glove Workers Union of America, plus some items on her personal life. Topics include the status of women in the labor market ca. 1900-1940; the eight-hour workday movement in Illinois; women's suffrage movement in Illinois; Nestor's participation in labor organizations on the national, state, and local levels and in federal, state, and local governmental commissions and agencies concerned with employment of women, employment services, and problems of unemployment, ca. 1906-1943; travels to Europe on missions sponsored by organized labor during World War I, particularly the American Labor Mission to Europe, 1918; her campaign for state senator in 1928 (includes lists of registered Democratic voters); her support for the 1923 mayoral campaign of William E. Dever, the 1939 mayoral reelection campaign of Edward J. Kelly, and the 1932 Presidential campaign of Franklin Roosevelt; service on the board of trustees of the Century of Progress International Exposition.. Correspondents include Jane Addams, Paul H. Douglas, Samuel Gompers, Harold L. Ickes, Mary E. McDowell, and Frances L. Perkins; officials of the WTUL, the glove workers union, the Cooperative Glove Association of Chicago, Chicago Federation of Labor, and American Federation of Labor. Collection also includes printed reports of conferences, conventions, meetings of labor organizations, etc. that Nestor attended, often with her annotations.

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