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Title: The Deaf and Deafened In Industry, Grand Rapids Safety Council, Industiral Division Meeting, February 28, 1939
Created: February 28, 1939
Creator: Howard, Jay Cooke
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Speech by Jay Cooke Howard about deaf employees and their placement and training
Subject: Job placement--Deaf, Occupational Training, Safety and health at work

Title: The Deaf At Work by Benjamin M. Schowe, October 22, 1957
Created: October 22, 1957
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Schowe discusses the future of deaf employment and explores why Akron has many deaf employees compared to other cities
Subject: Vocational Rehabilitation--Deaf, Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States, Communication--Deaf, Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Occupational Training, Lipreading

Title: The Deaf Wage-Earners: A Study in Adjustment to Occupation, Benjamin M. Schowe, no date
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Long article about deaf employment by Schowe, includes a lengthy comparsion to deaf employment in Great Britain
Subject: Occupational Training, Segregation, Safety and health at work, Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States, World War II, Communication--Deaf, War Manpower, Lipreading, Worker's Compensation--Deaf, Vocabulary--Deaf, Sign Language--American, Job placement--Deaf, Oralism vs. manualism debate

Title: The Deaf Worker in Modern Industry, Benjamin M. Schowe, no date
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Schowe outlines important characteristic traits to possess as a deaf employee
Subject: Occupational Training

Title: The Elephant Sneezed And--Benjamin M. Schowe, ca. 1937
Created: January 1, 1937
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Schowe disagrees about Smaltz's assertions regarding occupational training
Subject: Occupational Training, Deaf--Employment--Statistics

Title: Manuscript: Professional Status for deaf workers, Benjamin M. Schowe, no date
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Schowe discusses discrimination in employment and issues of communication
Subject: Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States, Discrimination--Deaf, Occupational Training, Communication--Deaf

Title: Realistic Approach to Deaf Employment, 1957
Created: January 1, 1957
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Discusses the extension of training and quality of training at state schools
Subject: Occupational Training, Job placement--Deaf

Title: Report from D.W. Wilson Jr. to Benjamin M. Schowe, no date
Creator: Wilson, D.W.
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Report about the best way to educate and train deaf workers
Subject: Civil Works Administration, Deaf--Employment--Statistics, Occupational Training, Public Works Administration, Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Oralism vs. manualism debate

Title: To All Those Employers Who Are Resourceful Enough to Find Rewarding Employment for Deaf Workers, Benjamin M. Schowe, March 17, 1960
Created: March 17, 1960
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Schowe describes the possibilities of deaf in employment
Subject: Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States, Vocabulary--Deaf, Lipreading, Oralism--Deaf--United States, Occupational Training

Title: Two Chemists of Akron, Thomas W. Osborne, by Benjamin M. Schowe, no date
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Schowe writes a biography of Thomas W. Osborne
Subject: Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States, Occupational Training

Title: United States to Make Survey for Deaf and Hard of Hearing, United States Department of the Interior, Office of Education, January 19, 1934
Created: January 19, 1934
Creator: Civil Works Administration
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Press release from the government announcing a study of how to best employ deaf and hard of hearing children in the future
Subject: Occupational Training, Job placement--Deaf

Title: Unrealistic Distinctions, Benjamin M. Schowe, no date
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Schowe focuses on how communication can be facilitated at work between deaf and hearing employees and supervisors.
Subject: Lipreading, Safety and health at work, Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States, Communication--Deaf, Occupational Training, Segregation

Title: Vocational Association of the Deaf: Committee on Industrial Practices, Progress Report, March 1, 1951
Created: March 1, 1951
Creator: Vocational Association of the Deaf Industrial Practices Committee
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Schowe and the committee discuss vocational training and other aspects of barriers to deaf employment
Subject: Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States, Occupational Training, Job placement--Deaf, Vocational Rehabilitation--Deaf, Communication--Deaf, Lipreading, Safety and health at work, Worker's Compensation--Deaf, Discrimination in employment--Deaf

Title: Vocational Section of Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf, Resolutions, June 21, 1951
Created: June 21, 1951
Creator: Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Various resolutions passed at the 1951 convention in Fulton regarding vocational rehabilitation and training for deaf children
Subject: Automobile driver education--Deaf, Occupational Training, Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf, Personality, Vocational Rehabilitation--Deaf, Mental health--Deaf

Title: War-Time Evolution of Employment Opportunities For the Deaf, Benjamin M. Schowe, January 3, 1943
Created: January 3, 1943
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Schowe describes the difficulties facing the deaf employee in search for jobs but presents some ideas that work to the deaf employee's advantage
Subject: Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States, Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Deaf--Employment--Statistics, Occupational Training