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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 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: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to A.L. Roberts, April 5, 1938
Created: April 5, 1938
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe expresses his honest opinion about labor bureaus
Subject: Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States, Job placement--Deaf

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to B.J. Marett, Senior Counselor, Vocational Rehabilitation, October 29, 1952
Created: October 29, 1952
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe says Firestone is not encouraging immigration at the time but that work may be found if people come at their own risk
Subject: Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States, Job placement--Deaf, Vocational Rehabilitation--Deaf

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Byron B. Burnes, April 19, 1941
Created: April 19, 1941
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe asks Burnes about what is going on with Tom L. Anderson and suggests that placement officers have thus far demonstrated great interest in the pamphlets
Subject: Unemployment--Deaf, Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Job placement--Deaf, Marketing channels

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Byron B. Burnes, April 8, 1941
Created: April 8, 1941
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe describes his scheme of distributing pamphlets to Burnes.
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Job placement--Deaf, Vocational Rehabilitation--Deaf, Marketing channels, Worker's Compensation--Deaf

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Frances Montgomery of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, September 19, 1944
Created: September 19, 1944
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe discusses the political considerations for services for the deaf in regards to employment and placement services
Subject: Job placement--Deaf

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Jay Cooke Howard, August 17, 1941
Created: August 17, 1941
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe warns of the risk of lumping deaf workers with the handicapped workers.
Subject: Job placement--Deaf

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Jay Cooke Howard, August 7, 1941
Created: August 7, 1941
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe asks Howard about who should be in charge of a labor bureau for the deaf- state or federal?
Subject: Workers' compensation Law and legislation, Job placement--Deaf, Employment--Deaf--United States, Vocational Rehabilitation--Deaf

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Jay Cooke Howard, Director of the Division of the Deaf and Deafened, Michigan Department of Labor and Industry, April 12, 1941
Created: April 12, 1941
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe discusses developing a booklet about handicapped and deaf workers for placement officers.
Subject: Job placement--Deaf

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Jay Cooke Howard, Director of the Division of the Deaf and Deafened, Michigan Department of Labor and Industry, May 8, 1941
Created: May 8, 1941
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe discusses the Lumbermens strike and the booklets for distribution for job placement services. He also expresses his displeasure at the Office of Personnel Management's exclusion of deaf and handicapped workers.
Subject: Strikes and Lockouts, Discrimination--Deaf, Job placement--Deaf

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Jay Cooke Howard, Director of the Division of the Deaf and Deafened, Michigan Department of Labor and Industry, September 25, 1941
Created: September 25, 1941
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe proposes a survey for deaf employment and labor demand.
Subject: Job placement--Deaf

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Jay Cooke Howard, March 8, 1941
Created: March 8, 1941
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe discusses points of the pamphlet with Howard
Subject: Job placement--Deaf, Marketing channels, Vocabulary--Deaf

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to L.F. Taylor, Field Agent for Vocational Rehabilitation, January 28, 1943
Created: January 28, 1943
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe illustrates employment opportunities for the deaf at Firestone
Subject: Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States, Job placement--Deaf, Vocational Rehabilitation--Deaf

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Marin R. Barker, Field Agent for Vocational Rehabilitation, March 19, 1943
Created: March 19, 1943
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe states that there are problems with placing workers with low I.Q.
Subject: Job placement--Deaf

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Robert H. Weir Jr, May 19, 1955
Created: May 19, 1955
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe tells Weir there are no jobs at Firestone but will help him look for something
Subject: Job placement--Deaf

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Tom L. Anderson, August 17, 1941
Created: August 17, 1941
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe fills in Anderson on what the industrial committee is doing and discusses the work of local placement officers.
Subject: Job placement--Deaf, Vocational Rehabilitation--Deaf, Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Employment--Deaf--Statistics, Safety and health at work

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Tom L. Anderson, Placement Agent for the Deaf, Austin, Texas, March 1, 1943
Created: March 1, 1943
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe responds to Anderson's comment about the usage of the term "mute" and states that with employment regulations, they cannot take on immigrants from other areas
Subject: Job placement--Deaf, Vocabulary--Deaf

Title: Memorandum from Benjamin M. Schowe to Joseph Thomas, May 17, 1955
Created: May 17, 1955
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe doesn't know why Firestone has not hired many deaf African Americans
Subject: Job placement--Deaf, African Americans--Deaf

Title: Memorandum from Benjamin M. Schowe to Joseph Thomas, Secretary and General Counsel, Firestone, May 24, 1955
Created: May 24, 1955
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe wants to help Weir get a job
Subject: Job placement--Deaf

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