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American Association of Schools of Social Work. In the same year she served as vice president of the American Economic Association and the American Sociological Society. She and Thomas founded the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in 1921. The summer school
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She retired as professor emeritus of social economy at Bryn Mawr
College in 1936. Kingsbury died at Bryn Mawr on November 28th, 1949 at the age of 78 after being ill for several weeks. A brief obituary published at the time described her as "internationally known as a champion of women's rights".
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was intended "to give the working woman a chance to obtain the education which they had been unable to obtain in early life", 83 women and girls enrolled in the first edition of the summer school and it was described in contemporary reporting as "a great success".
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Committee on the
Economic and Legislative Status on Women. During 1921â22 she toured China and India, then the Soviet Union in 1929â30, 1932, and 1936 to research conditions for women and children. She published findings from her visits to Russia in 1935.
156:(October 18, 1870 â November 28, 1949) was an American professor of economics and a pioneer of social research. Kingsbury helped to establish the American Association of Schools of Social Work, and served as vice president of the
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Kingsbury became director of investigation for the
Massachusetts Commission on Industrial and Technical Education for a year beginning in 1905. The next year she accepted a position as instructor in history and economics at
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College of the Pacific in 1890. Her hobby was listed as "Woman's Rights" in her yearbook. From 1892 to 1900 she was a history teacher (and first female teacher) at
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Women on governing boards: a cooperative study of women on governing boards and in administrative posts in local, state and national organizations, public and private, composed of both men and women.
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in Boston. She served as president of the New
England History Teachers Association in 1911. From 1911 to 1913, she directed a national study of the opportunities for women in social service.
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In 1918, Kingsbury played a key role in establishing and leading a Bryn Mawr course to "prepare women for supervisor positions in industry" through training supported in part by the
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Licensed workers in industrial home work in
Massachusetts : analysis of current records under the auspices of the Bureau of Research, Women's Educational and Industrial Union
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Report of the
Committee on Economic and Legal Status of Women, American Association of University Women in cooperation with the Women's Bureau, United States Department of Labor
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243:, she published the final volume in 1933. She gained the rank of associate professor in 1907. The same year she was named director of research for the
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at the college. This was the first graduate department in the United States of
America to train students for careers in social service.
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In 1931, Prohibition
Director Amos W. W. Woodcock appointed Kingsbury to a ten-person committee to investigate the consequences of
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219:. During her stay in London (1903â04), she became interested in social reform. In 1904, Kingsbury taught history for a year at
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176:, in 1870. She was the daughter of Willard Belmont Kingsbury, M.D., and Helen Shuler nÊe DeLamater, M.S.A.. She grew up in
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484:, Branch, State, and National Committees on Economic and Legal Status of Women, American Association of University Women.
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Kingsbury, Susan M.; et al. (October 1915), "The boot and shoe industry in Massachusetts as a vocation for women",
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A comparison of the Virginia company with the other English trading companies of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
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Kingsbury was chairman of Pennsylvania's first minimum wage board and for nearly a decade served as chairman for the
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Department of Research; Perkins, Agnes Frances; Martin, Eleanor; Post, Margaret A.; Kingsbury, Susan Myra (1910),
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Newspapers and the news: an objective measurement of ethical and unethical behavior by representative newspapers
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Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada
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429:, Economic Relations of Women, vol. 9, Women's Educational and Industrial Union.
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Kingsbury, Susan Myra (1939), "Economic status of university women in the USA",
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Francke, Marie (April 1917), "Opportunities for Women in Domestic Science",
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Kingsbury, Susan (February 1910), "Economic Efficiency of College Women",
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Labor Laws and Their Enforcement: with Special Reference to Massachusetts
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377:, Studies in economic relations of women, vol. 1, Longmans, Green.
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355:, Boston, Massachusetts: Women's Educational and Industrial Union.
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An Introduction to the Records of the Virginian Company of London.
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An Introduction to the Records of the Virginian Company of London
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631:, San Francisco, California: Library of Congress, May 23, 1899
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Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages
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Industrial experience of trade-school girls in Massachusetts
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honors society. At Stanford, her master's thesis was titled
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Marchione, Mollie T. (June 2013), "Kingsbury, Susan Myra",
587:"Women and Social Research at Bryn Mawr College, 1915-1940"
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Graduate Department of Social Economy and Social Research
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Employment and unemployment in pre-war and Soviet Russia
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Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Kingsbury and the prohibition research committee in 1931
702:, Routledge Worlds, Taylor & Francis, p. 239,
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Monthly Review of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Biographical Dictionary of Modern American Educators
912:"Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers"
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The World of Colonial America: An Atlantic Handbook
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856:"In Memoriam â Susan Myra Kingsbury, 1870-1949",
810:, Indianapolis: Library of Congress, May 11, 1931
782:, Exira, Iowa: Library of Congress, July 28, 1921
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362:Journal of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae
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210:The Municipal History of San Francisco to 1879
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278:National Young Women's Christian Association
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252:Labor Laws and Their Enforcement
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780:Audubon County journal
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953:American sociologists
858:Social Service Review
756:Evening public ledger
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305:Samuel McCune Lindsay
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174:San Pablo, California
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178:Stockton, California
154:Susan Myra Kingsbury
20:Susan Myra Kingsbury
963:Economic historians
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269:Carola Woerishoffer
260:Martha Carey Thomas
217:Columbia University
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