Oral history interview with Edith Spivack, 1996

Biographical Note

Attorney-at-law

Scope and Contents

Childhood: family; Barnard College: class of 1929, Greek games, faculty; Columbia University Law School: faculty, student body, extracurricular activities; post law school job search; women's roles in the workplace; marriage and career; Workman's Compensation Division for the City of New York; New York City government; Seabury Investigation; Tammany Hall; Women's Trade Union League; Corporation Counsel for the City of New York; industrial relations; labor; women's rights; parenting and working; female role models

Subjects

• Columbia University. School of Law--Alumni and alumnae.
• Davis, Evan A., interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Spivack, Edith--Interviews.
• Women lawyers--Interviews.

Access Conditions

Copyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 2002