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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 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 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: 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: 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: Rough Draft of Letter (2)
Creator: Unknown
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Rough draft thanking the Work Projects Administration for revising their regulations
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, United States. Work Projects Administration, Safety and health at work

Title: Suggestion for Radio Talk to Employers--ESAD Diamond Jubilee Broadcast: The Business of Being Deaf, Benjamin M. Schowe, August 8, 1940
Created: August 8, 1940
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Draft of radio address about deaf employees and work hazards
Subject: Safety and health at work

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: Without Benefit of Telephone, by Benjamin M. Schowe, October 13, 1958
Created: October 13, 1958
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Schowe writes about his experience of deaf employment at Firestone
Subject: Employment--Deaf--United States, Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States, Safety and health at work, Segregation