Standard Recommendations for the Relief and Prevention of Unemployment
Cover cartoon by Rollin Kirby, from T<em>he New York World <br /> <br /></em>Back page cartoon by Gordon Grant from <em>Better Times.</em>
American Association for Labor Legislation
<span>M 9 Box 98, </span><a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/vcu/repositories/5/resources/279.oai_ead.xml" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
American Association for Labor Legislation, New York.
Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Learn more: <br /><a href="http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/programs/unemployment-insurance-early-history/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Unemployment Insurance: Early History</a>, Social Welfare History Project<a href="http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/social-security/social-security-unemployment-insurance/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><br /></a>
Labor Laws in War Time. Special Bulletin, No. 1, April, 1917
Publication discussing the importance of protections for the civilian labor force during wartime. Discusses efficiencey Includes concerns for safety, sanitation, hours, wages, child labor, woman's work, social insurance, labor market and administration of labor laws.<br /><br />Along with other minimum requirements, argues for a three-shift system in continuous industries, one day's rest in seven for all workers, equal pay for equal work without discrimination as to sex, and the prohibition of specially hazardous employment for children under sixteen.
American Association for Labor Legislation
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American Association for Labor Legistlation, New York.
1917 April
Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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American Association for Labor Legislation [membership solicitation card]
Membership solicitation card published by the American Association for Labor Legislation. One side has an editorial cartoon by Gordon Grant, republished from <em>Better Times, </em>a New York welfare magazine. It shows a family standing under an arch in which the keystone (labelled "Employment") is slipping out. If the keystone falls, the family will be crushed. <br /><br />Excerpts:<br /><br />Security of Employment for the Breadwinner. The only basis of Sound Social Action. <br /><br />Help the Keystone Hold! <br /><br />Other side--<br />Purpose: <br />To improve industrial conditions that needlessly involve loss of life, health and productivity of workers; and to obtain uniform labor laws in the interest of the whole community. <br /><br />This Association is an instrument with which men and women are accomplishing, cooperatively, what they could not hope to do individually.
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Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Learn more: <br /><br /><a href="https://www.theworldwar.org/explore/exhibitions/current-exhibitions/were-home-now-what" target="_blank" title="online exhibit of Gordon Grant editorial cartoons" rel="noreferrer noopener">We're Home--Now What?</a> National World War I Museum and Memorial exhibit