Browsing Employment and Training Institute Publications by Subject "1930s"
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Book Review of Mary Kellogg Rice's Useful Work for Unskilled Women: A Unique Milwaukee WPA Project
(2003-01-01)A book review of the manuscript by Mary Kellogg Rice on “Useful Work for Unskilled Women: A Unique Milwaukee WPA Project.” Rice was a senior at Milwaukee State Teachers College during the Great Depression when her teacher ... -
Milwaukee WPA Handicraft Project Online Exhibit
(2012-01-01)This online presentation provides photographs and text from an exhibit prepared by the late Mary Kellogg Rice for the Golda Meir Library in October 1997. Rice served as art director for a highly regarded WPA project operating ... -
Replacing Welfare With Work in the WPA: The Handicraft Project That Made Milwaukee Famous, 28th Annual Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture, Lois Quinn
(1997-01-01)The Milwaukee WPA Handicraft Project represents the largest public work program for unskilled women on welfare in Milwaukee County. Its success in providing meaningful employment to women with few obvious labor market ... -
They Built Our Community: Relief Work during the Great Depression
(2010-01-01)This booklet describes a number of work relief projects operating in Milwaukee County in the 1930s with lasting positive impacts on the county. Highlights include construction of the Village of Greendale by the WPA and ...