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Title: Activities of the Silent Colony, February 3, 1920
Created: February 3, 1920
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Manuscripts
Description: Schowe describes the activities of the silent colony's athletics and the progress of deaf employees
Subject: Employees Recruiting

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: Civil Works Project for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, January 26, 1934
Created: January 26, 1934
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Letter to ministers from Schowe asking for their assistance in making contacts with the deaf and hard of hearing
Subject: Discrimination--Deaf, Unemployment--Deaf

Title: College Degree isn't a license to practice a Career.
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Notes
Description: Schowe illustrates an academic degree as a hunting license- to get a job if you can find one, not a license to a job.
Subject: Degrees, Academic, Educational Statistics

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 War Workers: A Study in Utilization, Benjamin M. Schowe
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Articles
Description: Also includes an extensive examination of deafness and identity
Subject: World War II, Employment--Deaf--United States, Safety and health at work, Discrimination--Deaf, Occupational Training, Lipreading, Segregation, Prejudices

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: 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: Inflationary or Not, SUB Contracts Stand (Akron Beacon Journal, December 9, 1958)
Created: December 9, 1958
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979, Editor of the Beacon Journal
Type: Clippings
Description: Schowe and the editor argue over benefits for the unemployed.
Subject: Unemployment, Ideology--Political

Title: The Kingdom of Inquiring Minds
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Notes
Description: Schowe talks about his job in economics which is really all about reading.
Subject: Employment--Deaf--United States, Reading

Title: Letter from Benjamim M. Schowe to Luther "Dummy" Taylor, March 13, 1943
Created: March 13, 1946
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe expresses regret but explains that with returning veterans, jobs are scarce
Subject: Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe on the behalf of the Akron division of the National Fraternal Society of the Deaf to Fred R. Rauch, January 30, 1940
Created: January 30, 1940
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe asks Rauch to clarify a regulation
Subject: United States. Work Projects Administration, Discrimination in employment--Deaf

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to A.G. Leisman, August 13, 1940
Created: August 13, 1940
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe informs Leisman that the federal authorities won't tolerate discrimination but that it may still happen locally
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, United States. Work Projects Administration

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to A.G. Leisman, August 29, 1940
Created: August 29, 1940
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Schowe outlines a strategy for Leisman to catch Pierce discriminating against deaf workers
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, United States. Work Projects Administration

Title: Letter from Benjamin M. Schowe to A.G. Leisman, October 26,1940
Created: October 26, 1940
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Discrimination has improved in Wisconsin
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, United States. Work Projects Administration

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