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The
papers of Dr. Thomas E. Posey were placed by him in the Archives of Labor and
Urban Affairs in January of 1984, and were opened for research in August of
1984.
Thomas E.
Posey was born in Washington, D.C. on June 9th, 1901. He received his Bachelor
of Arts in economics from Syracuse University in 1923 and his Master of Arts
from Syracuse in 1925. He taught at West Virginia State College from 1926 to
1951. In 1946 he took a leave of absence to lecture at the University of
Wisconsin and to work for his Ph.D. in economics and labor relations, which he
obtained in 1947. From 1940 to 1942 he was chairman of the AFL-CIO's
Political Action Committee.
He served
as an economist for the Wage Stabilizaton Board from 1951 to 1952, and then he
joined the Mutual Security Agency (MSA) in 1952 and assumed the post of labor
advisor in Burma. At the end of his first year the Agency was asked to leave
Burma, but on the request of the Prime Minister, Dr. Posey served out his full
term until 1954. From 1954 to 1959 he served as an advisor in the Philippines,
and from 1959 to 1963 in Turkey. He returned to Washington and held the
position of senior policy and planning officer for the Agency for International
Development (AID) until his retirement in 1971. During this time, he also
taught economics at Howard University. In 1971 he took a position as part-time
research associate at the University of Windsor, and taught there until 1979.
The bulk
of the collection falls within 1963 to 1975, and reflects his interests in
manpower economics, the third world and developing countries, racial
discrimination, the history of the black church, and minorities in Canada.
There are some materials relating to his years in Burma, but only a few folders
of materials from the Philippines or Turkey.
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Agency for International Development, 1963-1971
Developing Countries--Economic Conditions
International Labor Organizations
Dr.
Carleton B. Goodlet
Dr.
Samuel Adams
Dr.
Ozay Mehmet
An index
to subjects and correspondents will be found in Index. Go to Index
Non-manuscript
Material: Approximately 200 loose photographs relating to Dr. Posey's work
overseas
have been placed in the Archives Audio-Visual collection. One roll of
microfilm labelled "First Baptist Church Windsor Minutes" and one
reel-to-reel audio tape labelled "W. Va State, Dr. Posey,
3/7/67, recorded at 3 3/4" are also in the Audio-Visual Collection.
Numerous pamphlets and journals received in this collection are available in
the Archives Library.
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Series I
Foreign Service Years, 1926-1963
Boxes 1-3
The
correspondence, clippings and working files from Dr. Posey's years as a foreign
advisor, 195" to 1963, including copies of foreign legislation and
publications from the 1940's and 1950's. Important subjects covered are foreign
labor, foreign trade unions, and the International Labor Organization (ILO).
Other material in the series reflects the Posey's daily life in Rangoon.
Photograph albums and scrapbooks relating to this series are in boxes 14 to l5.
Files are arranged alphabetically by subject.
[Box1] [Box2] [Box3]
Series
II
Office and Personal Files, 1949-1978
Boxes 3-13
Although
this series includes a few items from his years at West Virginia State College,
as well as papers from various research projects he pursued independently, it is
primarily the office files of Dr. Posey as senior administrator for the Agency
for International. Development (1963-197) and as research associate at the
University of Windsor (1971-1978). Important subjects are economics,
employment and developing countries, as well as Black studies, Blacks in
Canada, the history of the Black church, and multiculturalism in Canada. Files
are arranged alphabetically either by subject, format or provenance of the
material.
[Box8] [Box9] [Box10] [Box11] [Box12] [Box13]
Series III
Scrapbooks Photograph Albums,
c.1952-c.1963
Boxes 14-15
Photograph
albums and scrapbooks from Dr. Posey's years overseas, 1952-1963. Scenes
include photographs of native workers and industries, as well as those of
Agency personnel, classrooms, offices and living quarters, principally in Burma
and the Philippines. Item #3 in Box 14 includes photographs of the United
Nations Conference in Geneva in 1963.
[Box14] [Box15]
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Series 1,
Foreign Service Years, 1926-1963, Boxes 1-3:
The correspondence, clippings and working files from Dr.
Posey's years as a foreign advisor, 1952-1963, including many foreign
government publications.
- Asian Socialist Conference, 31 Jan 1953
- Burma; Clippings, c. 1952
- Burma; Government documents, 1936,
1944, c. 1946
- Burma; Government documents, 1948 - 1949
- Burma; Government documents, 1950
- Burma; Government documents, 1951
- Burma;
MSA Labor newsletter, Jun 1952
- Burma; Newspaper, 30 Apr 1954
- Burma; Office files, 1947, c. 1950
- Burma; Office files, 1951
- Burma; Office files, Jan - Jun 1952
- Burma; Office files, Aug - Dec 1952
- Burma; Office files, Jan - Jun 1953
- Burma; Office files, Jun - Dec 1953
- Burma; Office files, 1954, n.d.
- Burma; Pamphlets, 1951, 1952
- Burma;
Personal papers, 1951, Jan - Aug 1952
- Burma;
Personal papers; Sep - Dec 1952, 1953, 1954 3-7).
- Burma; Seminar papers,
Rangoon, Mar 1954
- Burma; Seminar papers,
Rangoon, Mar 1954
- Burma; Seminar papers,
Rangoon, Mar 1954
- Burmese
language, papers in, n.d.
- India;
Reference material, 1926, 1953, n.d.
- Indonesia;
Documents, 1953, 1954, n.d.
- ILO;
Meeting on workers' education, Geneva, 9 - 14 Dec 1957
- ILO; Seminar, Asian labor
problems, 12 - 26 Sep 1953
- ILO; Seminar, Asian labor problems, bulletin, 12 - 26 Sep 1953
- ILO; Seminar, Asian labor problems, bulletin, 12 - 26 Sep 1953
- Malaysia,
unidentified research paper, n.d.
- Philippines; Documents, 1955
- Philippines; Documents, 1955
- Philippines;
Documents, 1956
- Philippines;
Office files, 1956-1959, 1962, n.d.
- Turkey
(?); Collective agreements and Trade Union Acts, Jul 1963
- Turkey;
Office files, 1962-1963
Series II, Office and Personal
Files, 1949-1978, Boxes 3-13.
Office files of Dr. Posey as
senior AID administrator and research associate at the University of Windsor,
including correspondence, minutes and financial records, as well as over fifty
files of background reading material.
- United Nations Conference, Geneva, 4 - 20 Feb 1963
- AID; Activities in manpower surveying, n.d.
- AID;
Certificates, Posey, 1964-1969
- AID;
Foreign aid proposals, fiscal year 1973
- AID;
Front Lines, 1966, 1975-1976
- AID;
Job decription, Posey, n.d.
- AID; Memo, "Agenda for
Action," 9 Jan 1969
- AID;
Memo from Ernest E. Neal, 11 Oct 1971
- AID;
Memo, "Programs for executive management," 10 May 1971
- AID; Memos, 1967,
1969
- AID;
Memos, 1973, 1976, n.d.
- AID;
Pamphlet on training, c. 1973
- AID;
Paper, "Hope for the wretched," Sep 1971
- AID;
Paper on employment, 12 Oct 1971
- AID;
Papers on population and S. America, n.d.
- AID;
Paper on rural electric co-ops, Apr 1965
- AID;
Policies on employee conduct, 8 May 1965, 13 Dec 1968
- AID;
Policy determination, 1972-1973
- AID;
Policy paper on AID participants, Oct 1969
- AID;
Policy papers on AID participants, 1970, 1971
- AID;
Policy paper on employment, Oct 1972
- AID;
Policy paper on training, Oct 1970
- AID;
Press release, 25 Jan 1972
- AID;
Research project on Asia, Mar 1966
- AID; Research project on Asia, 'May 1966
- AID; Research project on Asia, 'May 1966
- AID; Research project on
development, Jul 1967
- AID; Research project on
international trade, Apr 1967
- AID; Research project on
international trade, Jun 1967
- AID; Seminar on employment
growth, 9 Nov 1971
- AID; Staff reorganization,
Sep 1968
- AID; Telephone directory,
Aug 1971
- AID; Telephone directory,
Sep 197/4
- AID; Training officers seminar, 18 Apr -
6 May 1966
- AID; Training officers seminar, 18 Apr -
6 May 1966
- AID; Training officers seminar, 18 Apr -
6 May 1966
- AID;
Unclassified document, 19 Apr 1955
- AID;
Unclassified document, 12 Oct 1963
- AID;
Unclassified documents, 1970
- Bibliographies,
1971, n.d.
- Black
banks, conference paper, 28 Dec 1973
- Black
capitalism, a paper, c. 1981
- Black
community and revenue sharing, Jan 1973
- Black
economists, 1974, n.d.
- Black
economists, a journal, 1975
- Black
Economists Development Project; Report, 1970-1971
- Black
leadership conference on South Africa, 1976
- Black
newspapers, 14 Dec 1974, 5 July 1975
- Black
newspapers, 25 Mar 1972
- Black
studies; Bibliographies, n.d.
- Black studies; Bobbs-Merrill
reprints, 1963, 1965
- Black studies;
Discrimination, reference material, 1962, 1970, 1972
- Black studies;
Discrimination, reference material, 1975
- Black studies; Industrial
and racial conflicts, 5 - 6 May 1967
- Black studies; Reference
material, 1970,
- Black studies; Reference
material, 1975, n.d.
- Black studies, University
of Wisconsin handbook, n.d.
- Blacks in Canada; History,
reference material, 1963, 1975, n.d.
- Blacks in Canada; History,
a reference material, Jan 1973
- Blacks in Canada; History,
reference material, 1972, 1976
- Blacks
in Canada; Reference material, 1977, n.d.
- Blacks
in Canada; National Black Coalition, 1973, 1975-1976
- Blacks
in Canada; Newspapers, 1970, 1973
- Blacks
in Canada; Newspapers, 1975
- Blacks
in Canada; Newspapers, Feb - Mar 1976
- Blacks
in Canada; Newspapers, Apr - May, Sep 1976
- Blacks
in Canada; Nova Scotia, Sep 1976
- Blacks
in Canada; Regional studies, Dec 1965
- Blacks
in Canada; Regional studies, 1973, c. 1974, 1975, n.d.
- Blacks
in Canada; SW Ontario Regional Black Educ. Council, 1975, 1975
- Blacks in Canada;
University studies, 1969, 1976-1977, n.d.
- Canada; Election survey
questionnaire, 1967
- Canada; Election survey
questionnaires, 1972,n.d.
- Canada; Immigration,
Conference on ... Immigrants, Sep
1975
- Canada; Immigration,
"Factors giving rise to ..." n.d.
- Canada; Immigration,
"Factors giving rise to ..." n.d.
- Canada; Immigration,
reference material, 1974, 1976, n.d.
- Canada; Immigration,
Special Joint Committee on. . . Policy, 1975
- Canada; Minority groups,
1972, 1975, 1977
- Canada;
Minority groups, Audio-visual catalog, 1977
- Canada;
Minority groups, community relations, 1973
- Canada;
Minority groups, West Indians in Toronto, n.d.
- Canada;
Multiculturalism, news releases, 1975-1976
- Canada;
Ontario Ministry of Community . . . services, guide, n.d.
- Canada;
Ontario universities, 1972
- Canada;
Ontario universities, 1973
- Canada;
Ontario universities; newsletters, 1976-1977
- Canada;
Secretary of State, 1976-1977
- Canada;
Secretary of State guide to funding, 1974
- Canada
Council; Guide to funding, Jul 1972
- Canadian
Council of Churches, 1975, n.d.
- Canadian
International Development Agency, 1977
- Canadian
Scholarship Trust Plan, prospectus, 25 Feb 1977
- Canadian
Society for Asian Studies; York Univ., 25 - 26 May 1973
- Correspondence, 1947,
1964
- Correspondence,
1965-1968
- Correspondence, 1969
- Correspondence, 1970
- Correspondence, 1971
- Correspondence, 1972-1975
- Correspondence, 1976
- Ethiopian Airlines, Inc.,
labor agreement, 8 Mar 1965
- First Baptist Church
History Project; 1975-1976
- First Baptist Church
History Project, n.d.
- First Baptist Church
History Project; Questionnaire, c. Oct 1976
- First Baptist Church
History Project; Reference material, 1974
- First
Baptist Church History Project; Reference material, 1976
- First Baptist Church History Project,
Reference material, n.d.
- First Baptist Church History Project,
Reference material, n.d.
- First Baptist Church History Project,
Reference material, n.d.
- First Baptist Church History Project,
Reference material, n.d.
- First Baptist Church History Project,
Reference material, n.d.
- First
Baptist Church of Windsor; Accounts, 1972, 1978, n.d.
- First Baptist Church of Windsor; Auditors report, 14 Mar 1973
- First
Baptist Church of Windsor; General, 1971, 1975, n.d.
- First
Baptist Church of Windsor, re: employment, 1968
- First
Baptist Church of Windsor; re: housing in Windsor, 1975-1976
- Foreign
Service Institute, 10 - 21 Aug 1970
- Foreign
Service Institute, 17 - 28 May 1971
- Foreign
Service Institute; Bibliography, E. Asia, Jan 1971
- Foreign
Service Institute; Bibliography, S. America, Apr 1971
- Foreign
Service Institute; Bibliography, S. Asia, Sep 1969
- Foreign
Service Institute; Bibliography, S.E. Asia, Mar 1971
- Goodlet,
Carlton B., research papers, 1975
- Howard
University, course materials, 1969, 1974, n.d.
- IFCTU Conference, Montreal, 16 -
25 Aug 1967
- IFCTU Conference, Montreal, 16 -
25 Aug 1967
- International Cooperation; White House
Conference, 28 Nov - 1 Dec 1965
- International Cooperation
Administration, 21 Jan 1957, n.d.
- International development, report to
the President, 4 Mar 1970
- International Industrial Conference,
San Francisco, 17 - 21 Sep 1973
- International Industrial Conference,
San Francisco, 17 - 21 Sep 1973
- Policy meeting, 4 - 8 Jan
1971
- Policy statements, n.d.
- ILO; Publications, 1976-1977
- International Manpower Institute; Seminar, 1 Jun -
13 Aug 1966
- International Manpower Institute; Seminar, 1 Jun -
11 Aug 1967
- International Manpower Institute; Seminar, 18 Feb 1971
- International Manpower Institute; Seminar, 1 -
20 Nov 1971, 1974
- International Manpower Institute; Symposium, 29 Apr -
I May 1970
- Manpower; Institute for Educators, 1964
- Manpower; Arkansas Institute for Educators, 1964
- Manpower; Iowa Institute for Educators, 15 - 16
May 1964
- Manpower; Ohio Institute for Educators, I - 2
May 1964
- Manpower Administration Seminar, 28 Jun 1963
- Manpower Conference at Cornell Univ., 12 - 13
Oct 1970
- Manpower seminar, 29 Jan 1968
- Mehmet, Ozay; Publications, 1970
- Mehmet, Ozay;
Publications, 1971
- Mehmet, Ozay;
Publications, 1971
- Mehmet, Ozay;
Publications, 1971
- Mehmet, Ozay; Publications, 1972, 1974
- Mehmet, Ozay; Publications, 1975, 1976
- Mehmet,
Ozay; Publications, n.d
- Multicultural Council of Windsor, 1976
- Multiculturalism and Third World Immigrants, 5 Sep 1975
- Multiculturalism Symposium, Jan - Apr 1976
- Multiculturalism Symposium, May - Jun 1976
- Multiculturalism Symposium, Jul - Aug 1976
- Multiculturalism Symposium, Sep - Dec 1976
- Multiculturalism Symposium, Jan - Feb 1977
- Multiculturalism Symposium, Mar - May, Aug - Sep 1977, n.d.
- Multiculturalism Symposium, n.d.
- Multiculturalism Symposium; clippings, May 1977
- Multiculturalism Symposium; lists, n.d.
- Multiculturalism Symposium; Summary of papers, 19 - 21 May 1977
- National Council of Churches, 1973
- National Tripartite Labor Congress, 26 - 28 Apr 1973
- National Tripartite Labor Congress, 26 - 28 Apr 1973
- National Tripartite Labor Congress, 26 - 28 Apr 1973
- National Tripartite Labor Congress, 26 - 28 Apr 1973
- National Tripartite Labor Congress, 26 - 28 Apr 1973
- National Tripartite Labor Congress, 26 - 28 Apr 1973
- National Tripartite Labor Congress, 26 - 28 Apr 1973
- National Tripartite Labor Congress, 26 - 28 Apr 1973
- National Tripartite Labor Congress, 26 - 28 Apr 1973
- National Tripartite Labor Congress, 26 - 28 Apr 1973
- National Tripartite Labor Congress, 26 - 28 Apr 1973
- National Tripartite Labor Congress, 26 - 28 Apr 1973
- Newspaper
clippings, 1965, 1968, 1969, 1973, n.d.
- Office
file material, 1976, n.d.
- Posey;
Remarks, 7 - 8 Mar 1971, 12 Apr 1969
- Posey; Resume, c. 1968
- Posey; Unidentified writings, 1947, n.d.
- Reference material; African agriculture, Jul 1970, n.d.
- Reference material; African agriculture, 1972
- Reverence material; African development, 1972
- Reference material; African employment, c. 1971, n.d.
- Reference material; American values, 1963
- Reference material; Asian development, 1968
- Reference material; Asian development, Oct 1972
- Reference material; Asian development, 1977
- Reference material; British labor 1787-1947, n.d.
- Reference material; Capital, c. 1971
- Reference material; Caribbean employment, Nov 1972
- Reference material; Central American training centers, 31 Dec 1964
- Reference material; Ceylon, c. 1971
- Reference material; Community activities of Syracuse Univ., 1971
- Reference material;
Developing countries, 1958, 1971
- Reference material; Developing
countries, 1973- 1970, n.d.
- Reference material;
Development, journal, 1971
- Reference material;
Development, journal, 1973
- Reference material, Economic
Development, c. 1974
- Reference material;
Employment, 1971, 1973
- Reference material;
Employment and education, c. 1973
- Reference material; Fiscal
policy, 1972
- Reference material; Fiscal
policy, n.d.
- Reference material; Ghana,
agriculture, n.d.
- Reference material; Ghana,
economic development, 1969
- Reference material; Guyanese
sugar industry, 1971
- Reference material; Health
insurance, Nov 1971
- Reference material;
Indonesian development, 1968, n.d.
- Reference material;
International labor, 1967
- Reference material; Israel,
1976
- Reference material; Jamaican
agriculture, c. 1974
- Reference material;
Land reform, 1971
- Reference material; Manpower,
1964, 1972, n.d.
- Reference material; Manpower,
n.d.
- Reference material; Manpower, n.d.
- Reference material; Manpower, n.d.
- Reference
material; Manpower, report to the President, Mar 1965
- Reference
material; Mitraniketan, Jun 1972
- Reference
material; National longitudinal studies, 1975
- Reference
material; National Urban League, 19 Jun 1970
- Reference
material; Philippines, "Country statement," n.d.
- Deference
material; Philippines, economy, Apr 1973
- Reference
material; Philippines, employment, 1973
- Reference material; Philippines, four year plan, 1972-1975
- Reference material; Philippines, labor movement, n.d.
- Deference
material; Philippines, manpower, 1968, n.d.
- Reference material; Philippines, tourism, 1973, n.d.
- Reference material; Puerto Rican urban development, c. 1971
- Reference material; Social activism and corporations, Aug 1973
- Reference material; Social services, n.d.
- Reference material; Taiwan, c. 1964
- Reference material; Uganda, 1976
- Reference material, unemployment, c. 1971, 1977
- Reference material; Unidentified and incomplete papers, n.d.
- Reference material; Unidentified and incomplete papers, n.d.
- Reference material; U.S. and Canadian voting behavior, 1975
- Reference material; Urban development, 18 Sep 1970
- Society
for International Development; newsletter, 1972, 1974
- Society
for International Development; 12th annual conference, 1971
- Southeast Asia Development Advisory Group; SEADAG Report,
1972
- Southeast Asia Development Advisory Group; SEADAG Report,
1972
- Status of
women and visible minorities in Windsor, 1975
- University of Michigan; Seminar materials, 1965
- University of Michigan; Seminar materials, 1965, 1977
- University of Windsor; Assoc. for Asian Studies, 1976
- University of Windsor; Assoc. for Asian Studies, 1977
- University of
Windsor; Career day, n.d.
- University of Windsor; Division and dept. memos, 1973, 1976-1977
- University of Windsor; Econ 440a, course materials
- University of Windsor, Economics Dept. proposal, c. 1973
- University of Windsor; Office of Info. services, 1973, 1976-1977
- University of Windsor; University memos, 1972, 1977
- University of Zambia; Institute for African Studies, 1971
- West Virginia State College, 1949, 19575 1972
- Windsor Advisory Committee on Employment, May 1969
- Windsor Committee on Affirmative Action, 1969
- Windsor Committee on Affirmative Action, Jan - May 1970
- Windsor Committee on Affirmative Action, Jun - Dec 1970
- Windsor Committee on Affirmative Action, 1971
- Windsor Committee on Affirmative Action, n.d.
Series
III, Scrapbooks and Photograph Albums, c. 1951-c. 1963, Boxes 14-15.
Photograph
albums and scrapbooks from, Dr. Posey's years overseas. The Agency's work in
Burma and the Philippines is particularly well documented, including many
photographs of native industries and workers.
- Rangoon, Burma, c. 1952. Black and white photographs--all
labelled--of the Mutual Security Agency's mission to Burma.
Includes a list of American personnel on p. 6.
- Rangoon, Burma, c. 1952. Black
and white photographs--none labelled--relating to Dr.
Posey's activities in Burma.
- United Nations Conference, Geneva, 4 - 20 Feb
1963. Print
material removed from this album is in Box 3 file 1: "United Nations Conference, Geneva, 4 -
20 Feb 1963."
- "Farewell Messages from, Labor Leaders of the
Philippines," 1956. A scrapbook of farewell letters
from Philippine individuals in industry and government. Include a few small
black an white portraits. A companion to item #2, discussed below.
- Thomas E. Posey and the Labor Education Center,
University of the Philippines, 1955-1959.î Both black and white
photographs and text material document Dr. Poseyís work in the Philippines, a
companion to item discussed above.
- Manila, Philippines, c.
1956 Black and white photographs of Philippine industry, labor Meetings, labor
education classes and MSA functions.
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*Adams,
Dr. Samuel C., 6:26; 7:3
Black
Panther, 4:23
Blacks
in Canada, see also Canada; Minority groups, 6:9-12
Contrast,
5:13-15
*Evans,
James C., 1:14
Joint
Center for Political Studies, Public Policy Series, 4:17
Labor-Management
Conference 26-28 April, 1973, see National Tri partite Labor
Congress, 9:15-20, 10:1-6.-
National
Black Coalition of Canada, 6:21
Neal,
Ernest E., 3:13
Posey,
Thomas E., role in Burma, MSA newsletter, June 1952, p. 6, 1:9; policy paper
by, 3:19; visit with the Oba of Lagos, Nigeria, 6:26
Revolutionary
Line for the National Black Economic Development Conference 5:5
Seminar
on Organization and Administration of Public Enterprises in the Industrial
Field, Rangoon, March 1954, see Burma; Seminar papers, Rangoon, 2:3-5 Sun
Reporter, 4:22
*Thomas,
Norman, 1:14
Union of
Burma Club, 2:2
*Wallace,
Dr. William, 1:17
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