Textile Workers Union of America Records, 1915-1994

 
Contents List
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Series: Engineering Department, 1953-1977
Physical Description: 1 box 
Scope and Content Note: These files consist of two headings, general publications and technical administrative bulletins. The general publications consist of Work Duty Charts for Textile Operations; Textile Workers' Job Primer, Volumes I and II; and Air Conditioning in Textile Mills. The technical administrative bulletins, which are arranged in numerical order, contain material mainly relating to technological advances in production and work environments within the textile industry. However, the bulletins also contain information on arbitration, engineering policies and practices and efficiency evaluation techniques. The Engineering Department was an entity within the Research Department until the late 1960s when it became a separate department.
Major Research Projects
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Work Duty Charts for Textiles Operations
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Textile Workers' Job Primer, Volumes I and II (Supplement)
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Air Conditioning in Textile Mills
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Technical Administrative Bulletins
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500 - An Inventory of Wage and Related Practices in Factories, by S. Barkin and F.G. Bishop
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501 - Workers Frequency Checks
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502 - Agreement on Wage Incentive Systems, Supplement to General Contract, Sewing Jobs
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503 - Building a Union Through Effective Local Activity on Wage Issues
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504 - Worker Frequency Checks (G-43)
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505 - An Inventory of Wage and Related Practices in Textile Mills
Note: Also French translation.
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506 - A Checklist of Procedure for Handling Employer Proposals on Workload Changes
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507 - Instructions for Investigation of Workload Problem by TWUA Research Personnel
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508 - Analysis of Approaches to Control of Wage Incentive Plans
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509 - Portable Speed Measuring Instruments for Local Union Use
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510-1 - Memo on Northern Cotton-Rayon Workload Conference of Joint Board Managers, 1953
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510-2 - North Carolina and South Carolina Administrator's Work Assignment, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1953
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510-3 - Canadian Staff Workload Conference, 1953
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510-4 - Notes for Policy meeting on Workload Problems - Cotton-Rayon Group, 1953
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510-5 - Alabama, Georgia and Texas Administrators' Work Assignment Institute, 1954
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511 - Instructions on Correspondence Course in Textile Workers' Job Primer
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511-A - Correspondence Course on “Primer”
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512 - Tentative Bench Marks for Cotton Textile Mills
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Illustrative Application of Card Tenders Bench Mark
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513 - Statement on Work Assignments for Committee on the Bench Mark Technique
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513-A - Bench Mark Technique - An Answer to Time Study
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514 - Orientation Lecture on Time Study and Incentive Plans, Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation
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514-A - Outline of Orientation Lecture on Job Evaluation and Workloads
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515 - The Unifil Loom Winder
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516 - Glossary of American-French Trade Terminology
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516-A - Glossary of Spanish-American Trade Terminology
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517 - An Introduction to Time Study, 1960
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517-A - An Introduction to Time Study, 1963
Note: French translation and exhibits.
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517-B - An Introduction to Time Study, 1963
Note: In English.
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518 - Nylon Production Process, 1961
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519 - Description of Jobs in the Cotton Textile Industry and Synthetic Yarn Weaving, 1963
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519A
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519B
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519C - Description of Cotton Textile Manufacturing Processes and Common Workload Complaints, 1963
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520 - An Arbitrator's View of the Industrial Engineer - Memo with pertinent quotes, 1963
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520A - An Arbitrator's View of the Industrial Engineer, Speech by Peter Seitz before the 11th Annual Conference on Industrial Engineering and Society for Advanced Management, 1961 March 24
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521 - Examples of Wage and Workload Improvements Obtained by local unions as a result of Technical Engineering Studies Conducted by TWUA Research Department, 1964
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522 - The Fiberwoven Process - A New Technological Development in Nonwovens, 1964
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523 - Occupational Cancer Hazards of Asbestos Workers, 1964
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524 - TWUA Policies and Practices in the Industrial Engineering Field, 1965
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525 - IUE, AFL-CIO Resolution on Industrial Engineering Practices Adopted by Executive Council, 1964
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526 - Recommended Procedures for Union Engineering Studies - Memo to Regional Directors
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527 - Automation, Notes for Canadian Conference, 1965
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527-A - Automation, Address by John Weiser, 7th Biennial Canadian Conference
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528 - Simplified Motion Standards
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529 - An Introduction to Benchmark System
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530 - Canadian Time Study Education Conference, 1965
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530A - Canadian Time Study Education Conference, Review Exercises - Sewing
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531 - Contract Clauses Dealing with Piece Rates, Standards, and Workload Changes
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532 - Union Safeguards in Time Study
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533 - Industrial Engineering Problems
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533A - Industrial Engineering and Collective Bargaining, by Paul N. Lehoczky
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534 - Introduction to Methods-Time Measurement
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535 - Glossary of Apparel Terms by Howard L. Daniels
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536 - A Significant Arbitration Award on MTM Standards
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537 - “Buy-Outs” in Cases of Wholesale Changes in Work-loads, Job Classifications, or Incentive Rates
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538 - Administration of Production Standards and Rates, Handling of Disputes
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539 - Common Job Evaluation Plans, 1968
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540 - MTM Science or Science Fiction?, 1966
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541 - New Federal Regulations Concerning Occupational Noise Exposure, 1969
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542 - Suppression of Cotton Dust and Lint in Textile Manufacturing Operations, 1969
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543 - Agreement Covering Operation of Wage Incentive Plan and Establishment of Time Standards, 1970
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544 - A Systematic Method for Setting Fatigue Allowances
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545 - Exploiting the Issues
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546 - How to Find Out Whether Plant Conditions are Hazardous
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546A - How to Find out Whether Plant Conditions are Hazardous (Safety only)
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547 - Circular Knitting Machine Operators - How to Train Knitting Machine Operators
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548 - Viscose Rayon Fibers - Flow and Description of Operations, 1972
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549 - Viscose Rayon Film - Flow and Description of Operations, 1972
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550 - Viscose Rayon Fibers - Flow and Description of Operations, 1972
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551 - Summary of Woolen Card Room Workload Survey, 1972
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552 - Summary of Woolen Spinning Frame Operators' Workload Survey, 1972
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553 - Countering False Employer Propaganda, 1973
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554 - Stevens Leaflets on Union Engineering Services
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554A - Stevens Leaflets on Union Engineering Services (Rev)
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555 - Work Duties and Workloads - Circular Knit Machines, 1973
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556 - Time Study - Stevens
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557 - Description of Production Processes in the Dyeing, Printing and Finishing Industries
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558 - Arbitration: Start with the Basics by Robert G. Carson Jr.
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559 - Technological Changes and Labor Productivity in the Textile Industry, 1977
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560 - Labor Productivity and Technological Developments in the Synthetic Fibers Industry, 1977
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561 - Knit Product Plants - Non TWUA, 1976