Frances Perkin's outline of aspects of work environment that constitute a good job, used for a speech made one month after taking office as Secretary of Labor.
Impact of employment of women; written by Frances Perkins while she was a visiting lecturer at the New York States School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University
President Franklin Roosevelt, his administration, and The New Deal were not without enemies. This anti-psalm states “Mr. Roosevelt is my shepherd / I am in want, / He maketh me to lie down on park benches, / He destroyeth my soul … Surely…
In this broadside, Perkins is one of five members of “America’s Invisible Governors,” named with thirty other “alien-minded New Dealer ‘advisors’ … all owing allegiance to the Frankfurter-Brandeis-Baruch-Morgenthau Monopoly … directed by Professor…
Statement on the death of President Franklin Roosevelt, written by his Labor of Secretary and personal friend Frances Perkins. Frances Perkins wrote: “We in the Department of labor have a feeling of keen and personal sadness for we, with our hands…
In this statement, Perkins makes clear the position of the government that strikes are “not a blow or a threat to organized government,” that they are instead “an economic tool or method of workers to insure that their employers agree to carry out…
During the Pacific Coast strike of 1934, that began on May 9, Roosevelt was vacationing on the USS Houston, sailing from Norfolk to Hawaii via the Panama Canal. Here he sends Perkins instructions, writing: “If you think advisable you can issue any…