Amy Hewes
Amy Hewes | |
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![]() Amy Hewes, from the 1910 Mount Holyoke College yearbook | |
Born | September 8, 1877 Baltimore, Maryland |
Died | March 25, 1970 Ossining, New York |
Occupation(s) | Economist, college professor |
Known for | taught at Mount Holyoke College from 1905 to 1943 |
Amy Hewes (September 8, 1877 – March 25, 1970) was an American economist, "a pioneer in introducing the minimum wage to the United States",[1] who taught at Mount Holyoke College from 1905 to 1943.
Early life and education
[edit]Amy Hewes was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of Edwin Hewes and Martha G. Hewes.[2] Her birth was registered with the Baltimore Monthly Meeting of Friends. She earned a bachelor's degree at Goucher College in 1897. She earned a master's degree at the University of Berlin in 1900, and completed doctoral studies in sociology at the University of Chicago in 1903,[3][4] with a dissertation titled "The Part of Invention in the Social Process."[5] Along with the Wisconsin school, the Chicago School of sociology is very influential in the academic history of disciplinary sociology and between 1892-1920 Hewes was the only woman student awarded a fellowship in the sociology department[6] However, Albion W. Small, department chair in sociology at Chicago, would recommend her not for a position in sociology or cognate disciplines but as a language instructor of German: "political science--civics, constitutional and diplomatic history, elementary economics and sociology--or something within hailing distance of these I should not hesitate--but German is a sight too wide of the mark", she wrote to Small, clarifying her choice to decline this job in a letter.[7]
Career
[edit]Hewes taught at Mount Holyoke College from 1905 to 1943; she was promoted to the rank of professor in 1909. Among her students at Mount Holyoke were Ella Grasso, governor of Connecticut, who considered Hewes a mentor.[8] She also taught at the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers.[9][10] From 1943 to 1947, she was visiting professor at Sarah Lawrence College, University of Massachusetts, and Rockford College.[11] She also gave lectures on labor topics for community audiences.[12]
Hewes served as executive secretary of the Massachusetts Minimum Wage Commission from 1913 to 1915.[3] She also worked on national and international committees concerning minimum wage and wartime labor shortages.[13][14][15] She testified at a Senate hearing on labor education extension programs in 1948.[11] She received an award from the United States Department of Labor in 1962, "for furthering the lot of laborers throughout the U.S."[16]
Books by Hewes include Industrial Home Work (1915),[17] Women as Munition Makers: A Study of Conditions in Bridgeport, Connecticut (1917),[18][19] and The Contribution of Economics to Social Work (1930).[20] For the United States Women's Bureau, she authored the study, Women Workers in the Third Year of the Depression (1933).[21] She also directed a published student study, Women Workers and Family Support (1925).[22] In addition to five books, she wrote over forty publications[6] in major academic journals[23] including American Economic Review,[24] Journal of Political Economy,[25] Monthly Labor Review,[26] Social Service Review,[27] American Journal of Sociology,[28] and Current History.[29]
Personal life
[edit]Hewes lived with other Mount Holyoke faculty in South Hadley, Massachusetts, including fellow economist Alzada Comstock.[30] She died in 1970, aged 92 years, at a nursing home in Ossining, New York.[31][7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Amy Hewes, 93, is Dead; Taught at Mt. Holyoke". The Berkshire Eagle. 1970-03-26. p. 6. Retrieved 2021-07-03 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Awarded to Miss Amy Hewes". The Baltimore Sun. 1899-03-30. p. 7. Retrieved 2021-07-04 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "Amy Hewes". Mount Holyoke Historical Atlas. Archived from the original on 2018-01-02. Retrieved 2021-07-03.
- ^ Madden, Kirsten; Dimand, Robert W. (2018-10-03). Routledge Handbook of the History of Women's Economic Thought. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-52836-4.
- ^ Deegan, Mary Jo (2017-07-05). Annie Marion MacLean and the Chicago Schools of Sociology, 1894-1934. Routledge. pp. 151–153. ISBN 978-1-351-53166-5.
- ^ a b Luo, Wei; Adams, Julia; Brueckner, Hannah (2018-08-30). "The Ladies Vanish?". Comparative Sociology. 17 (5): 519–556. doi:10.1163/15691330-12341471. ISSN 1569-1322.
- ^ a b Deegan, Mary Jo (1991). Women in Sociology: A Bio-bibliographical Sourcebook. Greenwood Press. pp. 164–169. ISBN 978-0-313-26085-8.
- ^ Purmont, Jon E. (2013-01-01). Ella Grasso: Connecticut's Pioneering Governor. Wesleyan University Press. pp. 38–39. ISBN 978-0-8195-7344-5.
- ^ Hollis, Karyn L. (2004). Liberating Voices: Writing at the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers. SIU Press. pp. 44–45, 121. ISBN 978-0-8093-2567-2.
- ^ Higbie, Tobias (2018-12-30). Labor's Mind: A History of Working-Class Intellectual Life. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-05109-8.
- ^ a b Education, United States Congress Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare Subcommittee on (1948). Labor Education Extension Service: Hearings Before the United States Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, Subcommittee on Education, Eightieth Congress, Second Session, on Feb. 16-20, 1948. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 204–207.
- ^ "Miss Hewes to Lecture on Labor". Hartford Courant. 1935-01-27. p. 10. Retrieved 2021-07-04 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Demond, Helen (August 1943). "Amy Hewes: Professor Emeritus of Economics and Sociology". Mount Holyoke Alumnae Quarterly. 27: 45–46. Archived from the original on 2018-01-03. Retrieved 2021-07-03.
- ^ Hewes, Amy (1933-03-01). "The Conference at Work". The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 166 (1): 86–94. doi:10.1177/000271623316600113. ISSN 0002-7162. S2CID 143823284.
- ^ "WOMEN TO DISCUSS LABOR.; Trade Union League to Confer at Katonah on Sept. 29". The New York Times. 1928-09-16. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-07-03.
- ^ Negri, Gloria (1962-03-17). "Dept. of Labor Honors: Friend of the Worker". The Boston Globe. p. 3. Retrieved 2021-07-04 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Hewes, Amy; Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics (1915). Industrial home work in Massachusetts. Women's Educational and Industrial Union.
- ^ Hewes, Amy; Walter, Henriette Rose (1917). Women as Munition Makers: A Study of Conditions in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Russell Sage Foundation.
- ^ Brown, Carrie (2002). Rosie's Mom: Forgotten Women Workers of the First World War. UPNE. pp. 56–60. ISBN 978-1-55553-535-3.
- ^ Keeler, M. (1931-06-01). "THE CONTRIBUTION OF ECONOMICS TO SOCIAL WORK. By Amy Hewes. Columbia University Press. 1930. $2.00". Social Forces. 9 (4): 609. doi:10.1093/sf/9.4.609. ISSN 0037-7732.
- ^ Hewes, Amy (1933). Women workers in the third year of the Depression : study. U.S. G.P.O. OCLC 61884203.
- ^ Women Workers and Family Support: A Study Made by Students in the Economics Course at the Bryn Mawr Summer School Under the Direction of Prof. Amy Hewes. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1925.
- ^ Engerman, David C. (2009-06-30). Modernization from the Other Shore: American Intellectuals and the Romance of Russian Development. Harvard University Press. pp. 137–138. ISBN 978-0-674-03652-9.
- ^ Hewes, Amy (1922). "Guild Socialism: A Two Years' Test". The American Economic Review. 12 (2): 209–237. ISSN 0002-8282. JSTOR 1802623.
- ^ Hewes, Amy (1920). "Labor Conditions in Soviet Russia". Journal of Political Economy. 28 (9): 774–783. doi:10.1086/253301. ISSN 0022-3808. JSTOR 1820568. S2CID 153469354.
- ^ Hewes, Amy (1932). "Employment of Older Persons in Springfield, Mass., Department Stores". Monthly Labor Review. 35 (4): 773–781. ISSN 0098-1818. JSTOR 41814009.
- ^ Hewes, Amy (1942). "Lyman Terrace: A Small Housing Project". Social Service Review. 16 (1): 86–102. doi:10.1086/633842. ISSN 0037-7961. JSTOR 30013828. S2CID 145222734.
- ^ Hewes, Amy (1923). "Note on the Racial and Educational Factors in the Declining Birth-Rate". American Journal of Sociology. 29 (2): 178–187. doi:10.1086/213578. ISSN 0002-9602. JSTOR 2764290. S2CID 145696243.
- ^ Hewes, Amy (1934). "Britain's Care of the Jobless". Current History. 41 (3): 284–290. ISSN 2641-080X. JSTOR 45340163.
- ^ Comstock papers, 1912-1969, Mount Holyoke College Special Collections.
- ^ "DR. AMY HUGHES, 92, OF MOUNT HOLYOKE". The New York Times. (The misspelling of her name was corrected in the next day's paper.). 1970-03-26. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-07-03.
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