Labour and Land, 1934-1961
File
Shelfmark: MSS. Perham 730
Held at the Weston Library
Comprises:
Folder 1 (unfoliated) Labour, general, press cuttings, 1934-1961
Folder 2 (fols. 1-111) Labour, miscellaneous papers, 1939-1954, including:
- (fols. 1-5) a memorandum on 'Industrial Organization among Natives in S. Africa', anon., n.d.
- (fols. 6-7) 'Matter for inclusion in reply to communication from Miss M. Perham of 27 Nov'; unsigned notes on Labour Departments in the colonies
- (fols. 8-9) letter from the Anti-Slavery Society about the long campaign to obtain International Labour Conventions, 1939
- (fols. 10-11) 'Summary of Colonial Legislation in which a Minimum Age for the Employment of Children is Prescribed', typescript, c. 1940
- (fols. 13-19, 36) memoranda by the Fabian Colonial Bureau Labour Committee on 'Governmental Labour Services', 'Trade Unionism in the Colonies', and 'Recent Changes in Colonial Labour', 1941-1942, with an analysis of 'Colonial Legislation relating to Trade Unions and Societies and Trade Disputes, position in Dec 1940', typescript
- (fols. 20-32) Colonial Office statement on 'Supervision of Conditions under which Labour is employed in the Colonial Empire'
- (fols. 33-35) minutes of the Research Sub-committee on Non-Self-Governing Dependencies of the Foreign Research and Press Service at which Wilfred Benson spoke of the work of the International Labour Organization (ILO), 4 Dec 1941
- (fols. 38-40) typescript notes on 'Labour Supervision in the Colonial Empire 1937-1943' and 'Trade Union Organizers' Training and the Colonies' with a Ruskin College correspondence course curriculum for members of colonial trade unions, 1943
- (fols. 41-45) Labour Party Advisory Committee on Imperial Questions Memorandum No. 277 on 'The International Labour Conference, Philadelphia, and Colonial Problems', 1944
- (fols. 46-57) report of a meeting of the Fabian Colonial Bureau on 'Colonial Labour Problems', 19 Feb 1945
- (fols. 58-68) 'Notes on Labour Legislation and the Development of Trade Unionism in the Colonies', Memo. No. 18 of the Colonial Office Reference Section, Oct 1947
- (fols. 1-85) UN Special Committee on Information analysis of Labour in Non-Self-Governing Territories, 1951
- (fols. 86-89) memorandum on 'Forced Labour' for the Anti-Slavery Society by C.W.W. Greenidge, 1952
- (fols. 90-93) bibliographies for the study of trade unionism, TSS
- (fols. 94-111) 'A Pilot Survey of Migrant Labour, Mar 1954, preliminary report' by R.B. Davison.
Further:
- folder 3 (fols. 1-16) memorandum by Greenidge on 'Land Hunger in the Colonies', typescript, and notes on a talk by G. Masefield on 'Use and Abuse of Land', n.d. and 1954
- folder 4 (unfoliated) land, general, press cuttings, 1935-1951.
Dates
- Creation: 1934-1961
Extent
4 items
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MSS. Perham 730
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
Contact:
Weston Library
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Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom
specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Weston Library
Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom
specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk