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What constitutes a good job
Frances Perkins' hand-written notes for a lecture on what constitutes a good job
Memorandum on Modern Culture and its Failure to Absorb the Machine, which is the Modern Characteristic of Modern Economic Life and Effort, pages 1-3
Memo on modern culture
Statement on resignation of Grace Abbott
Statement on resignation of Grace Abbott
Notes on Modern Women
Notes on Modern Women, for talk or publication at Cornell University
Impact of the Employment of Women on Industry and Business, page 17
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
Working Woman and Marriage Talk Draft
Draft of talk on The Working Woman & Marriage
Copy of Telegram to Boston Globe from Frances Perkins, Industrial Commissioner New York
Copy of Telegram to Boston Globe
List of Accomplishments for Franklin Delano Roosevelt
With Frances Perkins initials at end
True measure of a man's greatness, first page
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…
Draft of statement on strikes, with particular reference to San Francisco
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…
Outline of Frances Perkins statement on AFL-CIO meeting
Frances Perkins statement on CIO-AFL meeting
Statement for Newsreel
This was the Secretary of Labor’s statement on the meeting of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations officials.
Telegram to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins concerning Emma Goldman's admittance into the United States
A telegram in favor of extending Emma Goldman's visa, signed by many members of the University of Chicago faculty and religious leaders around Chicago. The name of Edith Abbott, professor at the School of Social Administration at the University of…
Anonymous letter sent to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins about antisemitism
An anonymous letter to Perkins concerning antisemitism and the whispering campaign against her, sent “from one who knows.”
Statement before the House Judiciary Committee in reply to House Resolution 67, Impeachment of Frances Perkins, pages 1 to 3
This eight-page typescript appears to be the copy that Perkins used in her hearing before the House Judiciary Committee. In conclusion, she stated: “It is because I share the confidence of other Americans in the capacity of our institutions to…
The Roots of Social Security (audio files)
Audio files from Frances Perkins' 1962 address, The Roots of Social Security. Perkins delivered this address on October 23, 1962, at the General Staff Meeting of the Social Security Administration in Baltimore. Maryland.
Persian merchant
Part of a letter sent to the Inquiring Society at Union Theological Seminary, New York City, from Justin Perkins