Mary van kleeck biography

American social forskare and feminist

Mary Abby van Kleeck (June 26, 1883 – June 8, 1972) was an American social scientist of the 20th century. She was a notable figure in the American labor movement as well as a proponent of scientific management and a planned economy.

Of Dutch nedstigning, van Kleeck was a lifelong New Yorker, with the undantag of her undergraduate studies at Smith College in Massachusetts. She began her career as part of the settlement movement, investigating women's labor in New York City. Van Kleeck rose to prominence as director of the Russell Sage Foundation's Department of Industrial Studies, which she led for over 30 years, beginning in 1916. During World War inom, van Kleeck was appointed by US President Woodrow Wilson to lead the development of workplace standards for women entering the workforce, becoming the first woman appointed to a position of authority in the American federal government during the war.

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Mary Mayer Van Kleeck 1883 ~ 1972

  

Part of the American History & Genealogy Project

Miss Van Kleeck is a social reformer and economic worker. Secretary of committee on women's work of the Russell Sage Foundation. Miss Van Kleeck was born June 26, 1883, in Glenham, New York. She is the daughter of Eliza Mayer, whose father, Charles F. Mayer, was a prominent lawyer of Baltimore, Maryland. Her father was the Rev. Robert Boyd Van Kleeck, of Fishkill-on-the-Hudson, New York.

She graduated from Smith College in 1904, and since then has been engaged in social work, holding the following positions: During the summer of 1904, secretary. Sea Breeze, the fresh air home of the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor; from 1905 to 1907 she was holder of the joint fellowship of the Smith College Alumnae Association and the College Settlements Association, during which time the subj

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Mary van Kleeck papers

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 Collection

Identifier: SSC-MS-00165

Scope and Contents

The Mary van Kleeck Papers consist of nearly sixty-seven linear feet of material, dating from 1849 to 1998, and are primarily related to her professional and public life. Types of material include biographical information and memorabilia, correspondence, speeches, writings, lectures, photographs, research notes, memoranda, reports, journal and newspaper articles, as well as organization and subject files.

These papers are primarily composed of documents and materials produced by the professional and public activities of Mary van Kleeck, the bulk of which span the years from 1917 to 1960. They include relatively little about her personal life. She spent several years organizing her papers, and the lack of biographical material was a deliberate choice. Most of the biographical materials that are included in the collection have come from other sources-family m