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Title: Building for Tomorrow, Benjamin M. Schowe, August 16, 1940
Created: August 16, 1940
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Schowe expresses concern about increased discrimination against deaf employees
Subject: Safety and health at work, Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States, Labor Unions, United States. Work Projects Administration, Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Worker's Compensation--Deaf

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: Final Report of the Temporary W.P.A. Employment Committee, May 15, 1940
Created: May 15, 1940
Creator: National Fraternal Society of the Deaf
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Final report regarding the individuals involved in the regulations revision process and terminology in the revisions
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, United States. Work Projects Administration, Vocabulary--Deaf

Title: The Function of A Fact-Finding Information Center in the Employment of the Deaf, Benjamin M. Schowe, November 13, 1944
Created: November 13, 1944
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Schowe calls for the establishment of a Bureau of the Handicapped within the Government's Labor Bureau
Subject: Job placement--Deaf, Discrimination--Deaf

Title: A Hasty Dissertation on Skid Trucks by Benjamin M. Schowe, March 24, 1941
Created: March 24, 1941
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Schowe explains the dangers and risks to deaf employees working with skid trucks.
Subject: Safety and health at work

Title: The Industrial Potential of the Deaf, by Benjamin M. Schowe, April 11, 1954
Created: April 11, 1954
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Schowe writes about the potential of the deaf worker post-war
Subject: World War I, United States. Work Projects Administration, World War II, Vocational Rehabilitation--Deaf, Employment--Deaf--United States

Title: Liberalism in Industrial Relations Today, Benjamin M. Schowe, March 7, 1954
Created: March 7, 1954
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Schowe discusses various economic and labor philosophies
Subject: Labor Unions

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: On Putting An Education to Work, Benjamin M. Schowe, June 21, 1944
Created: June 21, 1944
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Schowe describes characteristics desirable in gaining employment for deaf employees
Subject: War Manpower, Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States, Safety and health at work, United States. Work Projects Administration

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: Self-security and the Humble Heart, by Benjamin M. Schowe, no date
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: A speech that Schowe gives at a National Fraternal Society of the Deaf banquet
Subject: Discrimination--Deaf

Title: Speech in Detroit, Benjamin M. Schowe, no date
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Schowe discusses war's impact on employment opportunities for deaf workers and determination on part of the deaf
Subject: Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States

Title: Suggestions, Benjamin M. Schowe, no date
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Schowe makes suggestions for distribution to employers
Subject: Civil Works Administration, Employment--Deaf--Statistics, Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States, 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

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