Amy Hewes | |
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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.
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]
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]
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]
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Amy Hewes | |
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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.
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]
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]
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]
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