Recommendations for labor dispensations for minors
Series Number
A4280
Summary
This series contains recommendations compiled by Labor Department representatives for members of the committee summarizing the investigation into different companies' requests for child labor dispensations. These dispensations usually involved the time and number of hours per week permitted to work and each dispensation was issued for a six month period. The information was gathered to ensure that the dispensation was necessary and that minors would be protected from unhealthy or adverse working conditions.
Creator
New York State War Council. War Emergency Dispensation Committee
Access Restrictions
There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
These records of the Division of Placement and Unemployment Insurance deal with unemployment compensation, unemployment insurance, homework, and work relief programs. The bulk are statistical and narrative reports, memoranda, meeting minutes, correspondence and subject files pertaining to industrial homework; women and child employment; federal minimum wage; emergency wartime agricultural labor policies; information relative to numbers, age, and salaries of workers; copies of orders regulating specific industries; and complaints on administrative determinations of unemployment insurance.
Creator
New York (State). Department of Labor. Division of Placement and Unemployment Insurance
Access Restrictions
There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
These records consist of the subject files of the Commissioner of Labor, covering such topics as fire safety in factories worker safety, enforcement of labor laws, labor legislation child labor, limitations of hours of labor, industrial code rules, and unemployment insurance.
Creator
New York (State). Department of Labor. Executive Office
Register of payments to overseers of abandoned children of slaves
Series Number
A3211
Summary
The volume includes records of payments made by the state treasurer for the maintenance of the children of slaves, a partial index (by name of city, village, or town) to an unidentified set of records, and records apparently dealing with prison construction work. The abandonment accounts include date and place of abandonment as well as name of child and birthdate. The records suffered severe burn damage so writing is often obscured and pages are incomplete.
Creator
New York (State). Treasurer's Office
Access Restrictions
Access to original records is restricted due to severe burn damage. See reference to digitized copies.