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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
- Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Benjamin M. Schowe Jr., October 6, 1959
- Created
- October 6, 1959
- Creator
- Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
- Type
- Correspondence
- Description
- Schowe asks his son about defining the term "deaf-mute"
- Subject
- Vocabulary--Deaf
- Title
- Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Boyce R. Williams, Specialist of Deaf and Hard of Hearing for the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, September 27, 1951
- Created
- September 27, 1951
- Creator
- Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
- Type
- Correspondence
- Description
- Schowe critiques some word choices in a pamphlet that Williams wrote
- Subject
- Vocabulary--Deaf, Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States
- Title
- Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Brothers Ayers and Robinson, April 12, 1940
- Created
- April 12, 1940
- Creator
- Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
- Type
- Correspondence
- Description
- Schowe disputes Rauch's arguments and defense of the regulations banning deaf employment
- Subject
- Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Vocabulary--Deaf, United States. Work Projects Administration
- Title
- Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Brothers Ayers and Robinson, April 12, 1940
- Created
- April 12, 1940
- Creator
- Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
- Type
- Correspondence
- Description
- Schowe brings up arguments about Rauch's letter to Ayers
- Subject
- Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Vocabulary--Deaf, United States. Work Projects Administration
- Title
- Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Dr. Myke, October 26, 1959
- Created
- October 26, 1959
- Creator
- Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
- Type
- Correspondence
- Description
- Schowe continues to debate the use of the term "deaf mute"
- Subject
- Vocational Rehabilitation--Deaf, Vocabulary--Deaf
- Title
- Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Earnest Elmo Calkins, August 10, 1959
- Created
- August 10, 1959
- Creator
- Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
- Type
- Correspondence
- Description
- Schowe debates the definition of "deaf"
- Subject
- Vocabulary--Deaf
- Title
- Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Fred R. Rauch, April 13, 1940
- Created
- April 13, 1940
- Creator
- Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
- Type
- Correspondence
- Description
- Schowe arranges a meeting with Rauch and asks to review certain records regarding deaf accidents at work
- Subject
- United States. Work Projects Administration, Vocabulary--Deaf, Safety and health at work, Discrimination in employment--Deaf
- Title
- Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to G.O. Erickson, November 15, 1939
- Created
- November 15, 1939
- Creator
- Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
- Type
- Correspondence
- Description
- Schowe suggests that the National Association of the Deaf form a committee specifically for Employment
- Subject
- Discrimination--Deaf, Insurance--Deaf, Worker's Compensation--Deaf, Workers' compensation Law and legislation, Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States, Vocabulary--Deaf, Organizations--Deaf--United States
- 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 Members of the NAD Industrial Committee, January 28, 1941
- Created
- January 28, 1941
- Creator
- Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
- Type
- Correspondence
- Description
- Schowe contacts his new committee for the NAD industrial committee and outlines a course of action
- Subject
- Employment--Deaf--United States, Vocabulary--Deaf, Organizations--Deaf--United States, Deaf--Employment--Statistics, Occupational Training
- Title
- Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Tom L. Anderson, December 10, 1940
- Created
- December 10, 1940
- Creator
- Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
- Type
- Correspondence
- Description
- Schowe turns down Anderson's request that he serve on a committee for the National Association of the Deaf but makes suggestions about deaf employment
- Subject
- Vocabulary--Deaf, Workers' compensation Law and legislation, Wages People with disabilities Law and legislation--United States, Safety and health at work
- Title
- Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to Tom L. Anderson, March 15, 1941
- Created
- March 15, 1941
- Creator
- Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
- Type
- Correspondence
- Description
- Schowe outlines a plan for a pamphlet for employers
- Subject
- Vocabulary--Deaf, Organizations--Deaf--United States, Employment--Deaf--United States
- 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
- Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to William O. Wheary, Director of the Safety Section of the Work Projects Administration, April 30, 1940
- Created
- April 30, 1940
- Creator
- Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
- Type
- Correspondence
- Description
- Schowe asks to see regulations for himself because there may be misinterpretations as to who is excluded and who should not be
- Subject
- Safety and health at work, Vocabulary--Deaf, United States. Work Projects Administration
- Title
- Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to William P. McCahill, Executive Secretary of the President's Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped, September 28, 1959
- Created
- September 28, 1959
- Creator
- Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
- Type
- Correspondence
- Description
- Schowe asks McCahill to better define the term "Deaf-Mute" in Bulletin 923 of the Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Subject
- Vocabulary--Deaf
- Title
- Memorandum from Benjamin M. Schowe to H.S. Richard, December 28, 1942
- Created
- December 28, 1942
- Creator
- Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
- Type
- Correspondence
- Description
- Schowe urges Richard not to use the term "mutes" and explains the history of deaf employees at Firestone
- Subject
- Vocabulary--Deaf, Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States
- 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