Reminiscences of Margaret Scattergood : oral history, 1976.

Biographical Note

Labor researcher.

Scope and Contents

Quaker upbringing, Bryn Mawr; American Friends Service Committee in France, 1917-1919; research staff of American Federation of Labor, 1926-1953, under Florence Thorne as director: first survey of labor statistics, consumer price index, women in the labor movement; William Green's leadership; Florence Thorne on Samuel Gompers, women's rights.

Subjects

• American Federation of Labor.
• Cost and standard of living.
• Hoffman, Alice M., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Labor unions--Officials and employees.
• Oral histories.
• Scattergood, Margaret, 1894-
• Society of Friends.
• Thorne, Florence Calvert.
• Women's rights.
• Women labor union members.

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