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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 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 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 David A. Davidowitz to Members of the N.A.D. Industrial Committee, no date
Creator: Davidowitz, David
Type: Correspondence
Description: Davidowitz argues for and against some proposals made by Schowe
Subject: Organizations--Deaf--United States, Occupational Training, Vocational Rehabilitation--Deaf, Employment--Deaf--Statistics, Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Insurance--Deaf, Public Relations, Job placement--Deaf

Title: Letter from Guilbert C. Braddock to Benjamin M. Schowe, August 27, 1941
Created: August 27, 1941
Creator: Braddock, Guilbert C.
Type: Correspondence
Description: Braddock discusses the Kenner situation with Schowe and various cases of discrimination and job placements.
Subject: Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Occupational Training, Job placement--Deaf

Title: Letter from Howard L. Benshoof to Benjamin M. Schowe, August 6, 1941
Created: August 6, 1941
Creator: Benshoof, Howard L.
Type: Correspondence
Description: Benshoof asks Schowe for information and assistance in job placement
Subject: Job placement--Deaf, Discrimination in employment--Deaf

Title: Letter from Jay Cooke Howard to Benjamin M. Schowe, February 15, 1941
Created: February 15, 1941
Creator: Howard, Jay Cooke
Type: Correspondence
Description: Howard talks to Schowe about committee members and some issues related to discrimination in employment.
Subject: Occupational aptitude tests, Job placement--Deaf, Discrimination in employment--Deaf

Title: Letter from Tom L. Anderson to Benjamin M. Schowe, January 8, 1941
Created: December 8, 1941
Creator: Anderson, Tom L.
Type: Correspondence
Description: Anderson is upset that Schowe won't head up the National Association of the Deaf's Industrial Committee
Subject: Employment Opportunities--Deaf--United States, Job placement--Deaf, Employment--Deaf--United States, Discrimination in employment--Deaf

Title: To A Select List of Placement Officers, Benjamin M. Schowe, April 10, 1941
Created: April 10, 1941
Creator: Schowe, Benjamin M., 1893-1979
Type: Correspondence
Description: Open letter to various employment placement officers asking them to fill out information cards about deaf employees
Subject: Job placement--Deaf, Discrimination in employment--Deaf, Worker's Compensation--Deaf, Employment--Deaf--Statistics

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