Collection Summary
Leo Wolman Papers 1870-1958
(bulk 1915-1958)
1870-1958
(bulk 1915-1958)
MSS56770
Wolman, Leo, 1890-1961
13,300 items
38 containers
15.2 linear feet
English
Collection material in English
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.
Economist. Correspondence, reports,
financial worksheets and graphs, wage rates material, bibliographies, election results
for the National Labor Relations Board, press releases, printed matter, and other papers
relating to Wolman’s career in economics.
Selected Search Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
People
Wolman, Leo, 1890-1961.
Organizations
United States. National Labor Relations Board.
United States. National War Labor Board (1918-1919)
Subjects
Arbitration, Industrial--Great Britain.
Arbitration, Industrial--United States.
Construction industry--Employees--Labor unions.
Economics.
Industrial relations--Great Britain.
Industrial relations--United States.
Industries--Great Britain.
Industries--United States.
Labor laws and legislation--Great Britain.
Labor laws and legislation--United States.
Labor unions--Great Britain.
Labor unions--United States.
Labor.
Manufacturing industries--Employees--Labor unions.
Mineral industries--Employees--Labor unions.
Professional employees--Labor unions.
Public utilities--Employees--Labor unions.
Service industries workers--Labor unions.
Transport workers--Labor unions.
Occupations
Economists.
Provenance
The papers of Leo Wolman, economist, were given to the Library of Congress by Mrs. Leo
Wolman in 1976.
Processing History
The collection was housed and described in 1976. The finding aid was revised in 2012.
Copyright Status
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Leo Wolman is governed by the
Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
Access and Restrictions
The papers of Leo Wolman are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the
Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and
advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information:
Container number, Leo Wolman Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress,
Washington, D.C.
Biographical Note
Date
Event
1890, Feb. 24
Born, Baltimore, Md.
1914
Ph.D. in political economy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.
1916
Published
The Boycott in American Trade Unions.
Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins Press
1918
Appointed head of section on production statistics, War Industries
Board
1919
Attached to American peace mission, Paris, France
1919
1928
Member, faculty, New School for Social Research, New York, N.Y.
1920
1931
Director of research, Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union
1920
1934
Editor,
Journal of American Statistics Association
circa 1925
Became freelance researcher for the National Bureau of Economic Research,
formally joining the staff in 1931 and later becoming director-at-large for
research
1931
1958
Professor of economics, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
1933
Appointed to staff of National Recovery Administration
1936
Published
Ebb and Flow in American Trade Unionism.
New York:
National Bureau of Economic Research
1961, Oct. 2
Died, New York, N.Y.
Scope and Content Note
The papers of Leo Woman (1890-1961) span the years 1870-1958, with the bulk of the
concentrated in the period 1915-1958. The collection consists of correspondence,
reports, financial worksheets and graphs, wage rates material, bibliographies, election
results for the National Labor Relations Board, press releases, printed matter, and
other papers relating to Wolman’s career in economics. Subjects include labor unions in
Great Britain and the United States; labor unions in the construction industry,
manufacturing industries, mineral industries, professions, public transportation, public
utilities, and service industries; state labor boards; and the United States National
War Labor Board.
Arrangement of the Papers
The collection is housed and organized in original folders as filed and with
descriptions supplied by Wolman.
Catalog Record: [https://lccn.loc.gov/mm81056770]
Container List
Container
Contents
1
Great Britain Instructions Basic Material
1
Earning Index
(2 folders)
1
Glass
1
Grain Milling, U.S.
1
Hand Tools
1
Knit Goods
1
Hosiery and Knit Goods
1
Youngstown, Ohio, Iron and Steel Rates
2
Iron and Steel
2
Jewelry
2
Leather
2
Lumber Millwork
2
Lumber and Sawmill
2
Knit Goods
2
Metal Trades (Early Period)
3
Paint and Varnish
3
Paper and Printing
3
Paper Boxes, Folding and Set Up
3
Printing and Publishing
3
Petroleum Refining
3
Pottery
3
Radio Manufacture
3
Ship Building
3
Silk and Rayon and Yarn Goods
4
Slaughtering and Meat Packing
4
Tobacco Products
4
Woolen and Worsted Goods, U.S.
4
Changes in Employment and Payrolls, States
5
State Legislation and Labor relations
5
State Labor Legislation Board, New York
5
State Labor Relations
6
Bibliography
6
State Labor Relations Board
6
Miscellaneous Wage Differentials
6
Unidentified Folder
6
Federal Reserve Board Index of Composite Wages
6
Wage Data Sources
6
Wage Statistics in the United States
7
Wage Data Individual Companies
7
Manufacturing Annual Earnings
7
The Problem of "Other" or "Unclassified" Workers
7
Files Loaned to A Rees
7
Wage Rages and Differentials
7
Bibliography of Wages and Salaries
7
Unclassified Miscellaneous Labor Force and Wages
and Hours Data
8
Variability of Union Wages in U.S., by Thomas T.
Moore
8
Bibliography, Wages of Woman
8
Bibliography on Unemployment and Unemployment
Insurance
8
Bureau of Labor Standards Special Studies
Definition of Occupations
8
Extractive Industries
8
Mines and Quarries Group
8
Metal Mining
8
Oil and Gas Wells
8
Quarrying
8
Anthracite Coal
8
Bituminous Coal Mining, Summary
Comparison 1890
1890
8
Bituminous Coal Mining
9
Transport and Communications
9
Motor Transportation
9
Steam Raliroads Early Period
9
Class IRR-ICC Employment
9
Steam Railroad, National Bureau of Economic
Research Computations
9
Steam Railroads
10
Steam Railroads, Old Notes, Correspondence, and
Miscellaneous
10
Pullman Cars
10
Air Transportation
10
Unidentified
10
Street and Electric Railways
10
Pipelines
10
Public Utilities
10
Telephone and Telegraph
10
Public Utilities
10
Public Utilities Summary
10
Gas and Electricity
10
Public Utilities, Daily Rates
11
Trades, Services, Professions
11
Auto Repair Shop Warehousing and Storage
11
Clerical and Office Workers
11
Trade (Distribution)
11
Laundries
11
Power Laundries
11
Trade State Data Recent
11
Domestic and Personal Service
11
Hotels and Restaurants
11
Professions
11
Stroke Statistics
11
National Labor Relations Board, Election Returns
1949
1949
12
National Labor Relations Board, Tabulation of
Election Results by Union Affiliation
12
Significant War Labor Board Cases
12
Vote in National Labor Relations Board in the
South
12
National Labor Relations Board Certification
12
Labor Government
12
Trade Unions and Anti-Trust
12
State Unemployment Compensation Data
13
Miscellaneous
13
Hours
13
Full-Time Hours and Earnings
13
Copy 2, 1950,
Sept.
1950,
Sept.
14
Distribution of Straight Time Wage Rates
14
Unidentified
14
Wage Cost Percent of Product in Various
Industries, 1933-1934
1933-1934
14
Summary of Number and Ninety Wage Changes in
Nineteen Industries Each Month 1916-1923
1916-1923
14
Douglas National Industrial Conference Board
14
General Summary
14
Manufacturing, Industries at Various date
Employment, Hours, Earning
14
Summary and Notes to Series on Average Hourly
Earnings and Employment in Five Industries from 1953
14
Employment
14
Minimum Wages, Pensions Other Miscellaneous
Pamphlets
14
Social Security Board Earning Data
14
Federal Reserve Board of New York
14
Employment and Payroll
14
Union Rates, Miscellaneous
14
Note on State Wage Rate Material
15
State Material
15
State Data: Summary and Index
15
California
(2 folders)
15
Colorado
15
Connecticut
(2 folders)
15
Illinois
(2 folders)
15
Indiana
(2 folders)
15
Iowa
15
Kansas
(2 folders)
15
Maine
15
Massachusetts
(3 folders)
16
Michigan
16
Minnesota
16
Missouri
16
Montana
16
Nebraska
16
New Jersey
16
New York
(3 folders)
16
North Carolina
16
North Dakota
16
Ohio
(7 folders)
17
(2 folders)
17
Pennsylvania
(2 folders)
17
Annual Reports of the Secretary of the Interior
17
Affairs, 1873-1912
1873-1912
18
Rhode Island
18
Virginia
18
West Virginia
18
Wisconsin
18
Cotton, Fall River, Mass., and New Bedford,
Mass., Data, 1870-1928
1870-1928
18
Cotton Goods, Rates
18
Boots and Shoes
18
Iron and Steel
18
Woolen Goods
18
Labor Income by Industries
18
Employment and Payroll Indexes, 1919-1938
1919-1938
18
Major Groups
18
Bridgeport, Conn., Manufacturers Bulletin
19
Wage Differentials
19
Wage Miscellaneous Differentials
19
Manufacturing, Miscellaneous Material and
Differentials
19
Geographical Differences in Metal
trade
19
Average Hourly Earnings, 1945-1946
1945-1946
19
Women's Bureau: Hourly Earning by Sex
19
Wage Differentials
19
Sex Differentials and Employment of Women
19
Industrial Variations in Occupational Wages
(Occupation Common to Several Industries 1914)
19
Differentials, Industry Comparisons,
Miscellaneous
19
Iron-Steel Wage Differentials
20
Regional Wage Differentials in Foundries and
Machine Shops
20
National Industrial Conference Board- Bureau of
Labor Statistics Special Studies, Comparison of Hourly Earnings, by Sex
20
Differentials in Manufacturing Index
20
Differentials Bituminous Coal
20
Anthracite Coal Differential
20
Railroads Differentials
20
National Industrial Conference Board, Selected
Industries Average Hourly Earnings, Sex and Skill Differentials, 1920-1939
1920-1939
20
Common Labor
20
Clippings, National Labor Relations Board and
State Board
20
U.S. Steel, Common Labor
20
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Hiring Rates
20
Cleveland, Ohio, Chamber of Commerce Hiring Rate
for Unskilled Males
21
Common Laborers: Weeks and Aldrich Reports
21
Common Labor
21
Summary and General
21
Bureau of Labor Statistics Special Studies,
1907
1907
21
Bulletins 18th and 19th Annual Reports and
Supplementary
21
Bulletins, 1870-1907
1870-1907
21
Entrance Rates of Common Labor
21
Common Labor in Road Building
21
Agriculture
21
Agriculture
21
Cost of Living
21
Census of Manufacturing
21
Number Employed in Stated as a Percentage of
U.S. Total, by Industry, 1889-1925
1889-1925
21
Figures
21
Man-Hour Statistics
21
(1929) 1933, 1935
(1929) 1933, 1935
22
Estimated Total Wages and Employment by Industry,
Summary Tables, 1914-1936
1914-1936
22
Union Rates
22
Manufacturing All Other Industries
22
Summaries of Data by Industry
22
Agricultural Implements
22
Automobiles
22
Bakery Products
22
Boots and Shoes, Special Data
22
Boots and Shoes
22
Building Material
22
Carpets and Rugs
23
Carriages and Wagons
23
Car and Ship Building
23
Cement
23
Chemicals
23
City Public Works
23
Clothing
23
Men's Clothing
23
Women's Clothing
23
Cotton Garments
23
Cotton Goods
23
Early Period
23
Special Tabulations
24
Cotton I-II
24
Distilled Liquors
24
Electrical Machinery
24
Finishing Textiles
24
Foundry and Machine Shops
24
Furniture
25
Construction
25
National Industrial Conference Board
25
Union Wage Data in the Building Trade for
Selected Cities, 1929
1929
25
Wage Study, National Bureau of Economics
Research
25
Building
25
Bureau of Labor Statistics Private Projects
25
Dow Service
25
Employment and Volume
25
Early Period
25
Engineering News Records
25
Building Construction
25
Building Assistant, State Data
25
Class I Steam Railways
26
Miscellaneous
26
Union Rates
26
Cost Index
26
Miscellaneous Correspondence
26
Sources and Comparisons of Data
26
Cities and States
26
Mining Other Than Coal
26
Anthracite Coal mining
26
Bituminous Coal mining
26
Anthracite mining, Bureau of Labor Statistics
27
Construction
27
Old Wages Study Material
27
Wage Study
27
Employment and Wages, Paul T. Brissenden
Material
27
Wage Rates
27
Building Construction Tables
27
Construction-Bureau of Labor Standards-Federal
Project Summary-Five Industries
27
Wages Study, Miscellaneous
28
National War Labor board
28
Press Releases
(3 folders)
29
(3 folders)
30
Monthy Reports
30
National War Labor Board Rules on Wage
Stabilization
31
Rules, Administration General Statements
31
Chemicals
31
Foods, Drink, Tobacco
32
Iron and Steel Products
32
Machinery
32
Non Ferrous Metals
32
Non-Manufacturing except Transportation
32
Printing Publishing
32
Rubber
32
Shipbuilding Commission
33
Worksheet and Graphs
33
Some Worksheet and Graphs about Wages and
Payrolls in France, Canada, and United Kingdom (Britain)
34
National Labor Relations Board Press Releases
34
Construction, Employment and Volume
35
National Labor Relations Board Miscellaneous
35
National Defense Mediation Board
35
Stone, Clay, Glass
35
Transportation
36
Transportation Equipment
36
Wood
36
Unidentified
(3 folders)
37
Printed Matter
37
Books
38
Books